Let’s take Einstein’s Theory of Relativity and make a complete mess of it and make poor references to personal reality which really don’t have any link to anything Einstein said…………

But…….everything we think we understand about the world is relative to our place in it.

Everything we experience we take in through our 5 senses. This is the simple unaudited input of data into our brains. That data is then filtered through our ‘Ego’, conclusions are reached, and output is then sent out either verbally, physically, or emotionally.

Our ‘Ego’ is our sense of who we are. It is our lifetime of experiences that we have had, through which we have established our core beliefs about what is right and what is wrong with the world around us. Our ‘Ego’ is built to protect us. It perceives what it believes is harmful and what is good and it establishes some core standards on how we should behave and act to various experiences.

The problem lies in the fact that we unconsciously believe that our ‘Ego’ is right and other peoples ‘Egos’ are wrong. We do this without thinking as that is the protection mechanism we have built up through our experiences. This is though what leads to intolerance and ignorance and is what has led to all the arguments, fights, and wars in history.

Can you understand that your view of the world is relative to the experiences you have had and the upbringing you had? Can you admit that your view is neither right nor wrong, it is just relative to you? Can you start to understand that others views (Ego’s) that differ from yours are also relative to their experiences and are neither right or wrong? This doesn’t mean you pander to others and become politically correct. It does not mean you arrogantly stand up for what you believe to be right. What it means is that you start to see situations from another’s relativity and when you start to do that it opens up avenues for communications and for ways to find common ground, rather than immediately assuming a hard-line position.

Don’t be an opinionated arsehole……give relativity a go

It's all Relative...