Blurs

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Learnt how perception changes, with time, as one matures-growing up physically and mentally and emotionally really do change the way one views the world-used to think the school sinks were big, but now they look tiny; used to fear some of the teachers, but now they've aged, can empathise that they are really human afterall, no matter how imposing they look or how fierce they are or how much homework they can manage to churn up-either that or the teachers have mellowed, I won't ever know. But there are unchanging things too, like how scary dark places still are, how one teacher can still instill some awe in me, and how wonderful the canteen food is.

Learnt how wilful I was, sputtering nonsense all the time without thinking or considering about others. But felt free, not stifled nor bound. Well, part of ageing.

Learnt the significance of biasness, how it can distort perceptions and impressions. Many things can be coloured easily, and the stains can be stubborn. And elitism is really prevalent, everywhere, I think. It's not a bad thing, being neccessary for national progress, but when confined to a certain field, it can be unfair and dividing. Source of conflict.


Personality tests, ever-popular, going on stronger.
People always are intrigued by themselves, how contradictory they can be, and want to learn more about themselves, which may explain the ballooning psychology department in recent years. Is there any basis for these online quizzes? It depends whether one is thinking along the line of the question-setter, eg. given a choice of four animals, one might choose the commonly-viewed-as-vicious spider as one's favourite cos it is independent etc, while another might vote for the cute bunny cos it is aloof. Both should point to the same personality trait, but the surveyees will be diagnosed differently instead. Moreover, being mcq most of the time, the quiz-taker has to make a preferred choice out of what are offered, instead of what comes to mind immediately, and provided the first inkling is most intuitive and telling. But they are indeed quite entertaining, providing a certain framework, like a scientific theory, to explain the phenomena our body displays. The quizzes might have added value if there shows some convergence, the driving force for constantly picking certain choices instead of others surely poiting to some inclination. But then, lol, there is some deviation on what we are really and what we think we are, how we think we behave. Mmm, the line between self and i is blurring.