As someone who is generally recognised as an incarnated god (for want of a better word), being human is not something I’m all that good at. I thought, though, I would write some entries on what it is like for me, and also what I’ve learned. This entry, I focus on some of my Life Lessons.
Filters
When I was younger, I had no filters. If I saw something, I would just say it. I also had a need to be acknowledged and recognized. Though, that might have been mostly because many people demeaned me and assumed I was mentally disabled or had a low intelligence. Hence, I had an overwhelming need to prove myself. Failure was not an option.
Filters didn’t really start to come until I was around 13 years old. Even then, it took me a long time to get my head around them. If I saw something, I would say it. I also saw no reason to not state the obvious.
I just assumed that if I could see things, others could, too.
Things were so blatantly obvious to me that I just assumed that others ignored them because they didn’t consider them important. It turned out that they not only did not see them, but argued I was wrong. (Though, I found that I rarely was.)
The life lesson here was that not everyone sees things the same as others.
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