Coming From Different Places

I had more communications with a person about an issue. This was an irritating topic to the point that I was close to severing ties to that business.

I realized after a while of feeling that I was not getting through to them, and seeing their responses that were almost in another language, that we were coming from two different places. Although we were speaking using the same terms and lingo, our messages were not being received correctly. What we each were 'hearing' was incorrect based on our different perspectives and approaches to this topic. Once I realized that some of my annoyance dissipated.

There's a big difference when someone is ignorant and not 'hearing' what is being said as they are clueless than when they are being oppositional intentionally.

I started to compose an email to reveal this insight and to share the information to enlighten them and to clear up where I was coming from to defend myself, then decided it was not worth my time and effort as it would probably fall on deaf ears.

Furthermore their ignorance was due to them being a part of the mainstream. They don't know about this subculture I live in, the homeschooling world. They are so clueless about it that they were misunderstanding the core topics that I blog about as being something other than they are. It is not realistic for me to expect that 98% of the country who doesn't homeschool will know or understand things about homeschooling and homeschooling blogs like mine.

See some people want to keep holding on to the world as they see it through their unique eyes and don't want to open their minds to the bigger picture. They want to stay in the cave.

I can't change the world, so whoever wants to stay in their cave can stay in their cave. Maybe someday they'll emerge on their own. I just didn't have the fight in me today. It gets exhausting to always have to explain basic things or to try to educate people about a lifestyle they are not living. So I didn't bother.