You Can’t Complete a Puzzle With Missing Pieces, But We Do it With People All The Time

How often do we formulate a complete narrative based on a limited amount of information?

How often do we take a single label and transform it into an entire book in our mind, from beginning to end and all the chapters in between?

How often do we “know” who someone is based on something we saw on television, something we read online, or a label that may or may not be true?

It’s like saying you’ve completed a puzzle when you only have one piece.

Formerly Incarcerated: Scumbag/Dishonest/Evil/Bad/Will never change.

Beautiful/Smart: Life is easy/Get everything they want/Rich/Life is perfect

Addict: Will never change/Dishonest/Out of control/Drain on society.

We do this with race, politics, religion; hell, we do it with everything.

It’s far too easy to formulate a complete narrative based on limited information.

In part, due to our wiring. We like to put things in boxes and label them. It provides the illusion of control.

It takes away uncertainty which we find terrifying and creates a level of certainty-which we crave.