I was recently introduced to that YT video with the recorded
voice saying a word that some people hear as Yanny and others hear Laurel.
Twitter says 47% hear Yanny, and 53% hear laurel. Other videos have been done where
they change the pitch of the word which does affect what people hear, but lets
stick with the fact that in its original sound, we hear something different.
Does this mean anything?
It does.
It means that no one person can be 100% right because there
is no RIGHT. There IS perspective. And Nobody has to change who they are to
hear something different, all anyone should do is accept we aren’t all the
same. We won’t all agree and most of the time there isn’t only two things to
argue rightness about.
I’m also feeling the need to write about this because it’s
one of my biggest pet peeves… when someone insists there is no other
perspective but theirs. Usually these are people who believe everything is black
and white, and since I’m a believer of countless grays, I can’t even entertain
conversation with a B&W closed mind anymore. It’s pointless and time
wasting. I write about this in Gray is Good and recently have referenced
Statistical Uniqueness in conversations about this too. The world is obsessed
with our differences right now, to the point of a mentality being created. This
“You are offending me” kind of thinking. Which creates this over inflation of
pride which then makes the offended individual offend. It’s like the building
of an attitude too. One that doesn’t allow for Yanny to be Laurel. And if I get
to throw out an opinion now –I think that changing this attitude could be easy.
It would only require putting oneself in a space of RESPECT. Because there, one
could accept what I hear: Laurel, is not what you hear: Yanny. And does this
have to break the bank? No. Not in a space of Respect. In that space we accept
EVERYONE is different.
So… how often can we put ourselves in this space? Trying to
go there after an argument is already underway is rather impossible. So why not
try to make it the space you occupy continually? Like your Aura, your bubble,
your surrounding vibrational field that people feel when you are nearby? Why
not live in that space of respect?
I’ve also referenced Being Understanding When I Don’t Understand, in a couple conversations recently. The two ARE different. You don’t have to understand a person and their choices to be understanding that they are struggling with those choices. It also doesn’t mean you have to garnish their load and make it your burden. To be in a respectful space and to be understanding, you are in the best place for yourself. If they expect your respect and understanding to be your lifting of the load too… that is their inability to grasp being in a respectful space and that in our differences, nobody need be exactly on the same page. Because fact is, some hear Laurel.
I’ve also referenced Being Understanding When I Don’t Understand, in a couple conversations recently. The two ARE different. You don’t have to understand a person and their choices to be understanding that they are struggling with those choices. It also doesn’t mean you have to garnish their load and make it your burden. To be in a respectful space and to be understanding, you are in the best place for yourself. If they expect your respect and understanding to be your lifting of the load too… that is their inability to grasp being in a respectful space and that in our differences, nobody need be exactly on the same page. Because fact is, some hear Laurel.
We are not automatons. We are humans with a googolplex of
cells making each of us unique.
