Beware the fisherman who’s casting out his line Into a dried up river bed But don’t try to tell him ‘cos he won’t believe you

Beware the fisherman who’s casting out his line

Into a dried up river bed

But don’t try to tell him ‘cos he won’t believe you

PHIL COLLINS

Have you ever tried to convince someone who was continuously delusional about the belief that they were under?

How well did you succeed at convincing them otherwise?

When we encounter someone who is myopic and delusional, we are hard-pressed to begin to change their perspective.

Instead, we are left with the necessity to either contradict their beliefs, reinforce them, or remain neutral and pretend that we are not opinionated on the topic, whatsoever.

Inevitably, whichever option we decide upon, we encounter a difficult moment in which we are entirely contradictory to our own beliefs and reality, regardless of which option we choose, we are left with our own need to navigate our way around their delusion.

This does not readily transpire without its own potential ramifications because we are decidedly clear on the reality that we, ourselves, are living in and yet, we are encountering another being who is decidedly determined that their own perceptions of reality are factual, and as a direct consequence, almost nothing that we might be able to share will bear any relevance to the way they are envisioning the world.

Conversely, there may be times in which we are the person who appears to be delusional to others, in which we are seeing things that we do not necessarily share with others, and as a direct consequence, they may be far less likely to believe that which we are pursuing.

Many times, what appears to be a flowing stream to one, is a dry riverbed to another. Given the rate in which the world is evolving, our ability to accurately discern one from another could not be more important.

Happy Saturday!