Law of Reversing Perspective

There is an interesting phenomenon in life. I call it the Law of Reversing Perspective. When things look one way, it can tell you about the underlying feelings because they are usually the opposite of the extant acts. I'll give a few examples.

1. Someone who purports to like being alone is usually someone who has always had people around them willing to be with them.

2. Someone who is outwardly arrogant and cocky is usually someone who is insecure with themselves and needs external vindication very often to make them feel better.

3. Someone who purports to not care about money at all are the people who have enough to not have had to worry about it in their lives.

4. Someone who is talking all the time and blathering on about nonsense seems like they are comfortable with themselves while quiet people are just plain creepy, but the talkers are the ones who are so uncomfortable with themselves that silence drives them crazy. This is because silence makes you have to think, and they don't want to think about themselves or what people think of them. The listeners are usually the ones who are actually interesting. But I will admit some of them are just plain creepy.

5. People who have never had to struggle in their lives strive to find it in other ways and count themselves elite and virtuous for doing so, and don't realize that people actually struggle because of circumstances and not desire. The by-product of the guilt-centric society that we have grown up in.

6. People are envious of someone who rebounds very quickly from anger or sadness or trauma because they wish they could. The reversal of this is the fact that they just know ways of drowning the trauma in a temporary sinkhole. It actually means that the trauma is just buried and crops up later in their lives since they never dealt with it on their own. People who can't deal with the trauma actually are dealing with it and eventually come out of it with a clear head. It is the classic push and pull between immediate satisfaction and long-term joy. This also does pre-suppose the person actually does come out of it eventually. If not, they are just pathetic and need a kick in the ass.