The joy of being misunderstood #shorts

Originally posted: 6/1/2022
I think about this Miles Davis quote a lot

Transcription:

I'm not sure it's long sleeve weather right now, but I got to break in my new elbow patches. Anyway, Miles Davis once said, if you understood everything I said you'd be me. To know everything about a person is tantamount to being that person. Not that we know everything about ourselves, but you know what I'm saying? Therefore, ergo, you get to choose would you rather... Actually, you don't get to choose but it's an interesting question. Would you rather be misunderstood or have no identity? Would you rather someone not get you or become you? If you want to be an individual person, if you want to be someone set apart from others, you get to be misunderstood. Fucking fun, enjoy it. And that my friends is the joy that you can find or the value anyway in that feeling of no one getting you. Anyway, if you like solving your problems just by thinking different, come along, I got more.

#quote #misunderstood #inspiration #selfidentity #identity #reframe

[WhiteStoneName]

This is really excellent. Could not agree more. Icons vs idols. Avatars vs persons. The coincidence of opposites. The expression of the infinite is also infinite. Part of being a person—being misunderstood.

Love it.

Also, love how you have about four thoughts at once.

[melanietempleton]

I’d rather want to stop fighting and feeling bad about being misunderstood and the feeling that people too close are copying me.

[Space_Princess]

now that you put it that way, I feel better about being misunderstood :3 as a disabled autistic person I am misunderstood a lot and it used to make me feel like something was wrong with me. I used to punish myself for how others responded to me because I felt responsible for others perceptions. But now that I'm 24 and wiser I have come to accept it more and this video helped me feel way more comfortable with people misunderstanding me. I will always strive to be a better person who treats others better but not at the cost of my own well being and definitely no more trying to manipulate how others see me. The old me is gone and I'm healing 💕

[tommygrayson]

“Never did I seek for you to understand me, for I only exist when perceived. No, I just wanted to talk.”

Understanding is a place reached when two equally impossible possibilities agree on something. They each have a “standing”, or, how they relate to the world that is obvious to the eyes. Under that standing is the sediment that holds up the obvious attributes. So, understanding being, that place, beneath the appearance of things, wherein the true unseen nature of a person intersects with another. We can feel it, the presence of like-mindedness.

[not-an-abuser]

Well, actually I agree and disagree at the same time. To be different, to have an identity is cool, but to be understood is cool too. When things are rough you need to know that you are not alone and not crazy.
I like the way Orwell said about it in 1984: "The old feeling,  that at bottom it did not matter whether O'Brien was a friend or an enemy,  had come back.
talked to.

O'Brien had tortured him to the edge of lunacy,  and in a little while,  it was certain,  he would send him to his death. It made no difference. In some sense that went deeper than friendship,  they were intimates"

[nyxskids]

I think, therefore Buffy is

-Paraphrase of Oz from the episode Earshot, Buffy the Vampire Slayer

[savannahwoods]

I am a strange loop- the unknowning at the bottem of consciosuness, is what creates the sensation of being, this is the crux of Godels incompleteness theorem

[sherlogic]

It’s great until being misunderstood leads to punishment. *poor parenting skills enter the chat*