Subjectivity 04012009

These thoughts about life and its myriad concepts always come to me at the most random moments. I believe it comes from my practice of drawing parallels between situations. Something happened at work today that flung my mind to something that had happened days or weeks before. The concept came to me that many of the things that we consider as concrete can be left up to question and interpretation. In my eyes that makes them entirely subjective. Of course there are things that we all accept as subjective; beauty, style, entertainment, success, etc. But what about concepts like good and evil; emotions like love, joy, and pain; attributes like dedication, compassion, and integrity. How do we accurately categorize and ascribe these constructs to people we know when their foundations are based on interpretative grounds? And what do we call it when a something is not exactly that which we describe it as? Do we automatically call it by its inverse? Surely we can not dismiss something as evil just because it is not the picturesque good. This grey area is where we can find a wide range of subjectivity. Something to ponder, but I fear that a conclusion will never be reached.