In the Staff Room the other day we were discussing how easy it is to fall prey to spam/phishing. And that there are so many other less than honest ways that can infiltrate someone’s life and thinking.
Which then led us to open up the conversation about What’s Real?
What do we absolutely know is real?
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| What's Real? |
In this age of images enhanced by photoshop too-good-to-be-true pill promises for weight loss and youtube videos
guaranteeing instant wealth, how do we tell fact from fiction? We have grown
cynical, skeptical and sometimes just plain miserable.
We are inundated with experts in every imaginable field and how strange, they often know each other. They tell you the same thing but use different words. They are exuberant and yes, a wee bit exhausting. And somewhere during their podcasts/ workshops and books, we struggle to be discerning.
We are inundated with experts in every imaginable field and how strange, they often know each other. They tell you the same thing but use different words. They are exuberant and yes, a wee bit exhausting. And somewhere during their podcasts/ workshops and books, we struggle to be discerning.
- Do you help the stranger standing on the side of the road, or is it a scam to steal your car?
- Is that orange juice really 100% pulp free as the advertisement says?
- Was that croissant truly baked in-house by the chef this morning?
- Are you “debt-free” if you carry a line of credit? (Yes, someone I know told me one day that she had no debt except what she had on her line of credit. We were in a public place, I was incredulous, I could not respond with what I really wanted to say.)
But most importantly, because our judgement has been skewed,
because we have been deceived in the past, or because our intuition has not
been flexed recently, do we trust ourselves?
Do you trust your experts or do you flex your intuition? (Tweet This)
What's Real, does anyone really know? (Tweet This)
*This one’s for you G. My true friend and love who favours real cheese every time.
on my young days, there's this girl approaching me saying that she's in trouble. She was driving and someone hit her car so she need money to return home. ww I helped her but it turn out that she stole my money
ReplyDeleteHow disappointing for you when you were doing your best to be kind. I am sorry that you had to experience that. But I do hope that one incident did not keep you from being helpful to the next person who needed you.
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