Are you the only one who knows the world?

Let’s suppose you want something.

A thing.

And let’s suppose there’s somebody else who wants it too.

What happens if the other person gets it, and you don’t?

Well, that depends.

Maybe you’re jealous.

Maybe you’re disappointed.

Maybe you’re happy for them.

Maybe you get drunk to forget about it.

Or maybe you design a cunning plan to steal it from them.

Whatever you feel, however it looks, depends on the subtleties of the story.

And that’s what makes stuff so incredibly personal.

That’s why we get disappointed and jealous, or rather forgiving and caring.

We fully believe the mental representation we have at the moment to be true.

We undoubtedly regard it as what happens, as a fact.

The real thing.

Even though the person who got the thing you also wanted probably disagrees with our idea of what it means.

Because theirs is different.

That is how it works.