THE INTERNAL TAILOR Lisa (Bear) Hamill
“The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them.” — George Bernard Shaw "The Yoga Sutra tell the story of a ten-year-old boy who has not seen his father since birth. One day, the man knocks on the door and the boy runs to his mother saying “Mama, there’s a stranger at the door.” His mother comes to the door and sees her long-lost husband. With all joy, she receives him and introduces him to the boy as his father. “Oh, my daddy”, says the boy. A few minutes before, he was a stranger; now he is his father. Did he change suddenly into his father? No, he is the same person. Only the boy’s perception of him has changed. Perception is a tricky thing. We think we know ourselves. We think we know others. But one small shift and everything can change. We have all been in a situation where we thought we knew someone and suddenly they say or do something that is so out of character or unexpected that we aren’t quite sure what happened. We start taking new measurements. But in the absence of something shocking, we expect them to be as we have always known them and unless they choose to share something new that will change our perception of them, we see them as the same person.
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