Art Critics

The thing that happens is neutral.  Our reaction to it defines it.  Our reaction to it categorizes it.  Our reaction to it is based on a set of filters that is unique to each of us…like a fingerprint.  That is why it is sometimes so hard to have empathy, let alone sympathy, for one another.  We can all look at the same event and each experience something completely different.  So, the thing that happens is neutral.

Motivation is subjective.  It is not neutral.  Motivation is dependent on the perception of the viewer.  It’s like the physics analogy of the train: if you are on the train, the world is racing by, but if you are on the ground, the train is racing by.  Same set of facts, different experience for each viewer.  Motivation is the same.  There is what happens inside the heart and mind of the person who displays the behavior, and there is what the observer attributes as motivation for that behavior.  Same set of facts, different experience for each participant.  

There are other examples.  They point to the same fact: we live in a world of neutral occurrences that are colored by every single one of us in our own, unique way.  Life is a detailed picture devoid of color, just waiting for an artist to fill in the empty spaces.  We are all that artist, painting the world in the colors of our own experiences.  If we could all just learn to see the colors that others paint…

Problem is, the world is full of f*****g art critics.