Everything you know is wrong

3/02/2008

Everything you know is wrong!!
-Marble Madness

I never thought about it when I played the game back in the day, but that is actually really funny. For some reason, that phrase has been on the tip of my tongue a lot lately. Experiences can often deceive you into thinking you have something figured out when really all experiences are tainted with a limited view point (your own) and a (usually forgotten) set of unique circumstances. So why is broken trust one of the hardest things to get over? Even when you know the circumstances this time are different. It's like we develop these mental formulas to size up new situations:

(this happened one time) + (this reminds me of what happened that one time or this happened to someone I know) = (this will happen every time)

It just seems weird that you can know something in your head but not in your heart (or feel something in your heart that doesn't make any sense). Why are we all such silly creatures of habit? And why is it so hard to distinguish legitimate fears from baggage?