Have you ever had the experience of being around one or more people and you’re talking about something you’ve all seen? Pretty soon, though, you start to wonder if you’d been someplace different besides there’s no way you saw what they saw.

It’s like that in everyday life too. People interpret what they see based on their past experience and their emotional state. And that most likely is different than your background.

This matters for two reasons. The first is that it will help you at least understand why someone may respond to something differently than you do.

It will also help you take some time to figure out what you are actually seeing compared to what you are looking at. This might help you gain different perspectives on what’s going on around you.

Another fun thing to do is to see what you think of something today compared to what you thought last week or year. You may not be able to do this now but try to test it from today forward. Make notes. Just see if your mood perhaps might influence what you are seeing.