The Logic of Assumption

Often, throughout the life and age of people, there are interpretations and guesses, as to the thought of others, or what you think about what someone says to you. The way of all this changes and falters based on ages and personalities. For example: It is the birthday of a 13 year old, and the mother of one of his friends was wondering what to get him. From what she knew and saw of him, she supposed that he watched a certain show, or perhaps she thought he was really into dinosaurs because the first time she met him, he was wearing a Jurassic park shirt. So she gets the boy another dinosaur t-shirt wrapped in a childish looking dinosaur gift wrap and card. The mother hoped that her son’s friend would enjoy the birthday gift of the cartoony dinosaur t-shirt. At the party, he opened the card, which read ‘I know you like dinosaurs, so I hope you enjoy the t-shirt!’. He opened the box, and found the shirt, which he thought was childish and embarrassing. He cried out “I don’t like dinosaurs! Why would you think that I did? This shirt is way too childish!” And the mother was sad that the gift was not appreciated. She tried to apologize, by saying “I’m so sorry! I thought you did. I tried to get you a nice gift, and I thought you would like it.” And the kid did not understand. The kid was mad, and he interpreted the apology as rude, because he was mad at the kind mother. People naturally assume things without thinking about the possibility of being wrong, for they are too busy thinking about said assumption and that thought leads to other thoughts, other distractions, that make the possibility of being wrong never to enter their head until it is a bit late to realize that they where wrong. A lot of mean people make assumptions about bad things about people. They assume that because of something to do with somebody, something he wants to be true is true. A lot of nice people, especially mothers, naturally assume the thoughts or opinions of a child based off of something like behavior, or what they wear. Often, when someone assumes something about someone that later effects them and the person, depending on the assumption, and the people, the thoughts and emotions of the two people change. And the change of emotion changes opinions, changes other assumptions about the person whom made the first, big assumption, changes the reasons that the person assumed an assumption about you, changes how you think about anything that person says or does for a certain amount of time until the emotion cools. A heartfelt apology could be interpreted as something rude, mean, uncaring. Et cetera.