Week Thirty-Six: Jesse Sample’s Freak of the Week “The World that’s Real”

Jesse Sample’s Freak of the Week Airs EVERY WEDNESDAY at 6pm EASTERN on RadioRadioX.com

This is Jesse Sample. When living in a society and dealing in hundreds of interactions a day, we might easily start to assume that we’re all on a similar page. Red means stop, Green means go. Most of us can at least settle on a commonly accepted idea of the quality we all call red. But your red isn’t the same as my red. Independent of the various biological factors, red means something very different to me intellectually. My unique set of experiences has fashioned me a one-of-kind lens to view the world. Society is full of people living drastically different internal lives than us.

Have you ever met someone who is over-the-top attractive, but they don’t seem to be able to see it? Everybody sees it but they can’t…or maybe they won’t. I intuitively think to myself, “Oh they just need someone to tell them so, hard enough!” And you can shower them in compliments, but they have built a world out of not letting those compliments stick. They can’t see what you see. When you believe something and it is a critical part of your reality, it’s as good as brick wall. But knowing this makes things a bit more flexible. By acknowledging that someone else, by definition, sees the world in a completely different way, we open ourselves up to a conversation with ourselves about how subjective our grasp on reality is. This could be fun. Much of the grace that I’ve been dealt in this life comes in the form of me being wrong about the world.

This week I wrote an English Sonnet with some minor deviations from the form, and I experimented using a Byzantine Scale in the guitar composition. Much the way it’s important for us to journey outside our normal wheelhouses when it comes to our perspective, it is extremely beneficial for me to journey into new realms in the way of musical composition.

Thanks to all of you tuned into RadioRadioX. This is the Freak of the Week, “The World that’s Real.”