I can't see you

Well, I decided to write about how people some of the people around me are invisible, and how I am guilty of not seeing others. I found this to be a very interesting topic, although it is not always easy to share with others the things you are guilty of, but I thought that it would be beneficial if it could give some type of advice, for me included, or found to be edifying. When I am out and about, people cross my paths all the time. Many people I see only so briefly, I barely have time to even process it, like when I’m riding in a car and so on. I’d have to say that one way I’m guilty of having people invisible to me is because I will not stop and take the time to know the person. Of course it is impossible to remedy this problem for everyone we meet on a day to day basis, events in our lives simply won’t allow for this, but there are times when the opportunity does present itself to us. I am somewhat of a shy person, I’m fine and comfortable around my friends and family, but when it comes to people I’m not too familiar with, I usually don’t have much to say to them, unless they initiate the conversation. So there are many cases where people I come in contact with remain invisible to me. I think that another way in which I could be guilty of not seeing others is looking only on the exterior, in other words, judging a person. I think that it is all too easy to make conclusions about people from what we see on the outside, and conclude in our minds that we already know the person and what they are about from what we see, or think that we see. But in reality, I’d have to say that the person is still invisible in many different ways. How are they invisible? Well one way is that you still really do not know the person you are judging. What I may think I know about the person is shallow to say the least, and may also be a complete falsehood. Not to say that observation always gives us a non-trusting point of view on things, but observation alone simply will not due. If I were a doctor, how could my simply looking at a patient help me know for sure if the patient were healthy or not. If I wanted to be sure about it, I’d have to take a close examination of the patient, maybe do some x-rays etc. So I think it would be best for me and everyone else to not assume that we know everything. Much information is only gained through deep study. And so with people I would have to say that, if I wish for less people to be invisible in my life, I would have to take the time to really get to know the people that I come in contact with.