Too often people become victims and victimizers by their own subjective social perceptions, unconsciously causing undue antagonism and discord for themselves and others. Even the most impartial and honest minds can become emotionally triggered under certain circumstances by careless misperceptions of each other. We get triggered and react to things prematurely, instead of realizing we may lack complete information about a given circumstance. Shaping a better world in our complex social environments demands we suspend our “subjective perceptions” a bit, when we know we lack key information about intent, context, circumstance, etc. The world isn’t as cruel and indifferent as our emotional triggers would have us think, when we simply bear the moment and inquire a little deeper, if at all possible. With this approach we can expand our range of understanding and benevolence in the world.
