Love me, love my elephant
Do you think you know me?
Does reading my blog give you an understanding of who I am as a person?
Let me give you a hint: you do and you don’t; it will and it won’t.
The opinions and beliefs I share here are from my heart, and to that extent the blog will give you a window. But no blog tells the whole story.
It doesn’t, for example, tell you which of my beliefs are left of liberal and which are as conservative as Chuck Norris. It doesn’t tell you whether I can remain calm and kind under stress or whether I blow up and lose my cool.
When you read a blog, you’re like a blind man with an elephant.
The same is true when you first meet people. You see them in a specific environment, under specific circumstances, interacting specifically with you. Their behavior may or may not be indicative of what they are like in other environments, under other circumstances, interacting with other people.
Love is the ability to delight in the whole elephant.
Have you patted an elephant today?
April 10th, 2008 at 3:20 am
It’s something people should think about. I blogged about this recently after getting a bunch of abusive comments from one particular person in regards to another post. They said a lot of things that were judgments based in assumptions and misunderstandings. I often wonder if people who comment take a moment to see things from anyone else’s point of view or just their own. Oh well, there loss.
Good post