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I just realised something (It's taken a while)

Life is about trying to understand people.
Life is also about realising that sometimes you can't.

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teknostatik.livejournal.com

But life is also about trying to understand yourself, which can be trickier, but is often a pre requesite to understanding other people.

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robinbloke.livejournal.com

I hear you there, even starting understanding the understanding so to speak gets confusion, what do you understand first?
I'm going back to maths, life is going to be entirely classified in logical puzzles. That way at least I know theres an equatable solution that is explainable, with working in the margins for extra marks.

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teknostatik.livejournal.com

First you need to understand the difference between yourself and other people. To look into the mirror and disregard those bits that are merely someone else's thoughts and ideas being reflected back at you. What is left is yourself, and that's what you need to use as a filter when trying to understand others; working out where they fit in your reality, or if they even fit at all.

And yes, it is horribly confusing, which is why most people don't think this deeply about anything.

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robinbloke.livejournal.com

But thought is one of the fundamentals of what and who we are, if we can't understand that or use it effectively we're not applying ourselves anywhere near where we should.
Understanding thought, I would think is a key to understanding yourself, but is that a step to a different kind of understanding? Rather than understanding yourself are you understanding the processes that make yourself?

Good note on the mirror and what you are yourself there, I'd not thought of things in that way before, although maybe similarly a little here and there.

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teknostatik.livejournal.com

I have the feeling though, that most people don't apply themselves, do everything they can to run away from the thoughts that they find in some way uncomfortable or even dangerous. But these are the thoughts that define us, the parts of us that are sufficiently different to other people to warrant our status as unique beings.

If we can't accept our own thoughts as being part of us, how can we expect other people to accept us on any level?

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robinbloke.livejournal.com

Because, as you say, most people don't apply themselves, don't look inside and examine their thoughts and therefore don't expect (or understand if) other people do.
As you also say, it can give a lot of self-understanding, but it can lead to a lot of false ends, in understanding your thoughts there will be a lot of static that although perhaps interesting may not form a significant part of your mindset, but if you start examining it and trying to understand it you give a greater part of your mind to that way of thought or idea, because you learn about it or understand it more.
So perhaps ironically I think, introspection actually can change who you are when you actually attempt to find out about yourself, but the time you understand something you're not the person who started examining the idea or thought in the first place.

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teknostatik.livejournal.com

So true. And something I've been thinking a lot about right now.

But do you think you become a more complete person for the introspection, or do you lose a certain something by defining things that were maybe never meant to be defined?

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