Don’t you love days like today? I do. It’s just exactly as I like it. Warm but not too hot, because I hate heat. And there’s no wind and it’s just ideal. I like it like this. I’ve been out in the car today and I’ve been feeling pretty good. I drive along looking at the wonderful views and I love it here where I live. I see cows in the fields and happy people walking.
But of course even I’ve decided that it’s a perfect day but maybe not everyone would agree. Maybe for some people it’s just an ordinary day. Really ordinary. Maybe you’ve had some bad news or something isn’t working out for you at all or maybe you’re feeling sick.
Now of course that’s my own interpretation. For many people today might be a bad day. Perhaps you’ve just had some bad news or just feel bad. Maybe you’re trying to do something that isn’t working. Maybe you just don’t feel all that well.
So I wonder what it is that makes it such a good day for me and what it is that might make it such an ordinary day for you. It’s not about the day itself is it? It’s the same day for me as it is for you, isn’t it? I see the sunshine, maybe you don’t. I see all the cows in the fields but maybe you don’t even notice them at all.
Maybe you see terrible things in the day. The best day for me is the worst day for you, that’s how it is.
Surely the only explanation is that it’s all in our minds, the day. We see the day through the filter of our minds, don’t we. We don’t see the day itself, we see what our minds tell us the day is like. We filter the day through our minds and our experiences of it.
I think it’s possible that if you and I have the exact same experience of the day we will see it differently. You come for a drive with me and we see different things, the 2 of us. You see the same cows, the same sunshine, the same people walking, but maybe you don’t even see them. (more…)