Maybe moreso
Than personal feelings and insecurities, we should be concentrating on each person’s background and/or experiences. There are “truths” to our day-to-day life deeper than beliefs about ourselves. There is experience and reaction to color our understanding of the world around us. While we cannot possibly know what someone else believes, or has experienced in their life to color their interactions with the current reality, being open to different interpretations of a situation will make us better people, friends, coworkers, etc. Spent this Sunday morning dealing with a billing issue from Comcast, and had to face the fact that different representatives of the company have varying interpretations of the company’s policies, or even have their hands tied due to certain policies of the company, leaving me to shoulder the burden of “fixing” how I will interact with the company through this billing cycle and beyond. I’m not a bad person, and none of the representatives I’ve interacted with this morning are either, but I KNEW from interacting with consumer affairs groups on line for years that Comcast can be anything from difficult to impossible to deal with, yet made the decision to use them for services as the lesser of two evils anyway! Now, I know that I have to accept the issues I opted to take a chance on, and resolve them to the best of my abilities. Live and learn, right? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯