Hi friends!
Today, I am writing to you as a 23-year-old for the first time. After having spent a fabulous birthday celebration that began on Friday with a party with some friends, and ended Saturday evening with a family gathering, I am finally on the train back to Flensburg. Engaging my mind in heavy contemplatory procrastination, while I should be writing a paper on the economic thought during the Enlightenment instead, much like the thinkers of the era and their theories that they based on experience, I had an enlightening moment myself, coming to a theory which I believe might just be the key to understanding the nature of things in this crazy world. Namely, while thinking about the conclusions that my experiences from the past year have brought me to, I realized what the dominating pattern is. Fact: things are rarely black or white, and grey areas are actually dominating in life's mosaic of people's characters and events.
What exactly does that mean? It means that between two or more paths that sometimes we have to choose from, rarely is one of them white, and the others black; one of them completely right and the rest completely wrong. Every choice that we make in life will deprive us of one experience, and grant with another. Fact: once you have made a choice, it is up to you to decide on how much white and how much black you will paint this experience with.
This theory does not apply only to life choices, but is applicable also to the way we see the people we come into contact with. Obviously, this is not relevant for every single person that we meet, but for the ones that we interact with more frequently. On the one hand, by creating an entirely positive image of some people, we risk to be disappointed often by their actions, while by creating an entirely negative image of other people can make us pass on some enlightening, and sometimes beautiful experiences. Fact: the best way to learn about ourselves is through interactions with others.
Now, this theory is the result of a single personal 23-year-old experience. If you have never considered this, and you decide to give it some thought after having read my post, good for you. If these thoughts are familiar to you and reading this post made you smile, then I guess our experiences don't differ much after all. Who would have said, huh? Fact: I really need to get this paper done now.
Catch you later!
DMB - Grey (street)
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