A Different Shade of Blue

"If I saw the world in a different shade of blue, how would you know unless I showed you?"

Above is a "catchphrase" that I created a long time ago. Now I am by know means saying I was the very first person in the whole entire world in the history of mankind to say that sentence, I'm just the first I know of.

The whole point of seeing the world in a different shade of blue stemmed from me wondering if every single human being saw the same colors. Now right off the bat we know they don't. Some people are colorblind. Some people are partially colorblind. I'm sure that there are other problems that cause people to see different colors as well. And we won't even go into drugs that claim to let you see things you couldn't see before.

Putting all that aside my thoughts were this: how do we know that when you and I see the a blue wall that we are seeing the same color?

Now granted we both call it blue. It is blue. It's color IS blue. But I might see differently than you.

Let's say that if I were to temporarily take over your body (creepy I know, just role with this) and look at the same blue wall I just looked at, what would I see? Would I see the same blue? Or maybe you mind interprets colors differently and what I was now seeing I would call red.

Get it?

Your "blue" might be my "red".

Trippy? Probably not.

Most people don't think like I do. Most people don't ponder what colors would be if they body-swapped with their friends.

But now that I am older (this epiphany came to me in early college) I take my little catchphrase a little differently.

See, the world has many, many colors. Blues, reds, greens, whites and so forth. Now these "colors" are not actually colors but opinions and thought processes.

Thought processes? Who in the world talks like that? Well, I do. I say thought processes for a very specific reason. I like the term "thought process" because it really is a process.

Everyone see's the world differently. That is what being human is about. It is impossible to see the world the same as anyone else. You will always have different ideas and opinions and thought processes than someone else. It doens't matter how alike you are with your best friend, your wife, your siblings, your parents, the fact remains that you will see the world in a slightly (sometimes drastically) different shade.

It is all about your thought process. What made you think what you are thinking now? Hopefully if you are reading this you are thinking about yourself thinking about this post. Becuase I am telling you to think about thinking about this you should be thinking about it (lol). So what you are thinking right now should be pretty simple to trace your thought process. But what about other things?

What was your thought process when you decided you don't like brocolli? What was your thought process when you decided to vote for a president? What was your thought process when you chose your major in college?

Now some (ok most (ok all)) of these have to do with experiences in life. Maybe you ate some overcooked brocolli when you were little and it left you with a bad experience. Maybe one candidate had a veiw you didn't like so you voted for the other guy.

But it all comes down to how we view the world. What colors we see. What we think.

Back to what I was very first talking about, picture this: I take over your body like I did before (creepy again) but this time instead of looking at a blue wall I looked at politics or food or people or any number of things. Would I be surprised? Would I be shocked to see the world how you did? I'm not seeing a difference in color but a difference in perspective, in life.

Looking through your eyes what am I going to see? A whole new shade of blue.

I love people. I love how people think. What caused tham to think what they and do what they do.

"If I saw the world in a different shade of blue, how would you know unless I showed you?"

We have to share with the world our views, our shades. People won't know unless you show them. How could they? They see things completely differently.

Now you don't have to be mean about it. Or rude. Or indignant. But share. Share your shades. I want to see them.

What is your shade of blue?