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People are impossible. I should know; I'm one of them.

created by Deborah909

(idea) by Deborah909 (4.7 y) (print)   ?   (I like it!) 2 C!s Fri Jan 21 2000 at 19:14:55

This is an encapsulation of one of this lifetime's main lessons.

Everyone, including me, is walking around, tacitly assuming that their words, actions, thoughts, and feelings are common sense responses that any reasonable person would have.

Not only are we all mistaken in that assumption - other people find us impossible because of our obliviousness to the extreme subjectivity (or even misguidedness) of our "common sense."


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