Emotions are an interesting lens through which we experience this life.
I think that sometimes we experience emotion so intensely, because it is intrinsic to us and traditionally caused by chemicals within our brain and body,  that we sometimes forget that while our emotions may somewhat define our own personal experience, they do not define the experience of those who are part of our experience.

That’s a lot of experience.

What I’m saying is this: We feel things.  We feel things intensely.  How we perceive (or what our perspective is of what we experience) what happens in our lives is directly influenced by what we’re feeling at the time we are observing our experience.   We can easily become caught up in our emotional perspective, so much so that we forget that what we’re perceiving isn’t necessarily how another person– even one who is intimately part of our experience– is perceiving.

This lack of awareness that another person may not be experiencing the same things– even under identical (if not the same) experiences– is what can cause miscommunication or misunderstanding.

There.  I think I just solved all of the world’s problems.  Go tell all your friends.

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