Preconception
I jotted this down while I was in Miami the other day.
This is a picture I did not take of a tomboyish young woman, hair spiked with gel, tattoos on her arms running up under the sleeves of her shapeless T-shirt, striding in a manly fashion in her baggy jeans across Victoria’s Secret with lacy colourful undergarments in her hand.
- Inspired by Unphotographable (Michael David Murphy)
It’s really amazing how our minds work. Before learning anything about someone we have already formed an opinion of what kind of person they are, what things they would like and activities they would enjoy.
With limited exposure to someone in one specific context, we quickly associate them with that activity only. Even though rationally we must expect people to have more than one interest, we still express surprise when they mention something they do or did that doesn’t fit what we “thought”.
Can you imagine how dull life would be if everyone fit the preconceived notions others have about them?
Right now I am feeling kindaangry...
