2025-07-17
Interacting with people is an inevitability, one of the more important aspects of this is perception. How you perceive a person is what makes them. This part of the interaction is one not often explicitly talked about when it is happening. The result of this initial impression, or perception is one that shapes how you view them. Because of this, changing the initial perception is something which is unlikely.
Instead of fighting against this perception, I try to embrace the idea. I appreciate finding the path of least resistance, this is simply an extension of that. As I make a perception of someone, others do of me. This perception, how they view me, is something I will not endeavor to change willingly, the way they view me is who I am to them. This is something I don't wish to change. Seeing how someone views me, and how it differs from my own self-perception is something I enjoy.
This affects how I perceive other people, I only trust my perception insofar as it has utility. How I view someone has as little value as I can reasonably make it. You could call it naive perception. You might ask what the utility of this is. Mainly the benefit is one of scope. The depth of another's mind is something I can't comprehend, and as such, embracing the unknown seems the best approach, rather than pretending to comprehend. Additionally, there is benefit in being able to accept information as it comes, instead of being constantly surprised with additional information that contradicts your perception. I consider self-perception as a foundational truth(relative to my worldview), while my perception of others is a functional "truth".