{"id":11267,"date":"2016-04-06T10:28:09","date_gmt":"2016-04-06T04:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/?p=11267"},"modified":"2021-01-30T12:43:27","modified_gmt":"2021-01-30T07:13:27","slug":"we-the-storytellers-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/2016\/04\/06\/we-the-storytellers-2\/","title":{"rendered":"We, the storytellers (2)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is a quote that has found its way into many posts on this blog &#8211; &#8220;<em>Judging a person doesn&#8217;t define who they are, it defines who you are.<\/em>&#8221; I still subscribe to that. However, motivated by the daily outrage on social platforms on everything ranging from a Coldplay video to a newspaper calling the city by its old name &#8211; Bombay, to each other&#8217;s political or religious belief systems, and by the behaviour of people around, (and myself when I introspected) I decided to go further along\u00a0that quote. The result was this tweet<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">&#8220;Judging a person doesn&#8217;t define who they are; it defines who you are.&#8221; But how they react to that judgment\/label indicates who they are.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 manu prasad (@manuscrypts) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/manuscrypts\/status\/708223498771165184\">March 11, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><!--more-->Quite self explanatory. Just as a judgment defines the person who is judging, how the person who has been judged reacts gives us an idea of him\/her.<\/p>\n<p>To borrow from Daniel Gilbert, <em>each of us is trapped in a place, a time, and a circumstance<\/em>, and <em>we use our minds to transcend these boundaries<\/em>. Our mind creates filters that enable us to see things\/others\/ourselves in a certain\u00a0light, one that most likely is not the same as how the rest of the world sees it. As the saying goes, w<em>e don&#8217;t see things as they are, we see things as we are<\/em>. In the context of our own selves, over a period of time, this results in the creation of our <em>self image, <\/em>a set of labels we have given ourselves. <em>Manu fancies himself quite a bibliophile, and was once &#8216;offended&#8217; when Flipkart sent him a (mass) mail with the latest Chetan Bhagat book as &#8216;Handpicked for you&#8221;.<\/em> \ud83d\ude00 When someone passes a judgment on us, and deviates from the &#8216;script&#8217; &#8211; especially in a way that conflicts with our self image &#8211; we react. And most of the time, we react as though by being called something\/judged in a certain way, we become that. In that reaction is a story we have told ourselves, about us.<\/p>\n<p>My good friend Kavi wrote a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kaviarasu.com\/2016\/03\/heres-to-a-good-day\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">wonderful post <\/a>a few weeks ago, and introduced me to a fantastic quote, attributed to Viktor Frankl<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-11286 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/quote-Viktor-E.-Frankl-between-stimulus-and-response-there-is-a-63917.png\" alt=\"quote-Viktor-E.-Frankl-between-stimulus-and-response-there-is-a-63917\" width=\"600\" height=\"377\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/quote-Viktor-E.-Frankl-between-stimulus-and-response-there-is-a-63917.png 1000w, https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/quote-Viktor-E.-Frankl-between-stimulus-and-response-there-is-a-63917-300x188.png 300w, https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/quote-Viktor-E.-Frankl-between-stimulus-and-response-there-is-a-63917-768x482.png 768w, https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/quote-Viktor-E.-Frankl-between-stimulus-and-response-there-is-a-63917-600x377.png 600w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 600px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 600\/377;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Take the time, and make the space.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a quote that has found its way into many posts on this blog &#8211; &#8220;Judging a person doesn&#8217;t define who they are, it defines who you are.&#8221; I still subscribe to that. 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