That's Just My Point Of View

So this weekend Nashville got hit with like 10 inches of snow, which is enough to basically shut down the whole city. I admit I have not been out of my house in 5 days. I probably could leave now but...I have enough food and today is not a work day for me so...I am good! I don't like cold weather and I am a true introvert so honestly, I am happy just staying  here. While I have been cocooned in my little home, however I have been binge watching TV of course because what else is there to do (be quiet you voices saying write more and/or clean more!!) and I watched two full seasons of an intriguing show called The Affair.

So this show is basically a Who-Dunnit murder mystery but it centers around 2 characters who had an affair which rocked the boat of this whole community and ultimately leads to this murder. The really interesting part of the show though, for me anyway, is that it shows the events often more than once from the different characters points of view. When it does this you find the stories are often different. Sometimes only mildly different, sometimes quite significantly different.

This just has my brain in a whirlwind right now. How vital is point of view to our lives? I mean part of me is asking this as a writer. Obviously that has huge implications for my book and my story telling, but I mean even beyond that. In my personal life how does my point of view affect my reality. How often do we hear people say things like "that is just not how I see it?" I hear that sometimes and I am just confused, I mean how can you see something differently than it happened...there has to be a way that it actually DID happen...doesn't there? What if we all see things colored by our own perspectives? What if we truly only see things based on our experiences or our expectations? That sort of changes everything doesn't it?

I don't have anything deep or insightful to say now. Just...think about it. I cannot stop thinking about it. How can we be sure to be honest at how we see and/or remember things? Not allow our point of view to skew reality or truth...seems important.