I feel. You feel. We don’t feel the same.

People can have two very different experiences of the same event.

We are in the same room, and one is cold and one is hot. Two experiences in the same room.
We are at the same party, and one is tired and one wants to party on.
We are at the same lecture, and one is bored and the other is inspired.
One feels excited and the other is anxious.

We are separate people and experience the world differently. It doesn’t make sense to expect or hope or demand that the other person experience the situation in the same way we do.

Yes, it might be simpler if we both did feel the same way, but that isn’t the reality. Instead of dismissing the other person’s experiences and trying to bring them to our side, we’d be better off being accommodating, compromising, or collaborating.

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