I was just thinking

i was just thinking about how most of us are just programmed robots walking around.

due to the fact that maybe 95% of what we know is only because someone told us..or we read someone else's point of view or theory and thought it to be true or fact.

and just maybe that 5% are things we decided to label our own, use our own point of view to decipher, and the hardway experience.

I'm thinking what if a person went throughout life without anyone telling them anything?

Or what certain things meant, stand for and or are used for. All that they know they learned through making their own assumptions/ideas/and configurations.

Take Ariel from the little mermaid for example. she knew nothing about the human race but was always curious. Certain items that she found she ended up calling and using them for what she thought they were used for until she was shown or told otherwise.

My thing is to the human race they may have looked at her as silly or ignorant. But was she really? Because she thought a fork was a hair comb did that make her ignorant? Or was she right to a certain degree that fit her perspective?

My thing is what may be considered a drinking cup in your eyes could be a home for an insect. So which one of them is ignorant or right? The cup thinker or the home?

I'm not trying to really make a point or am I? Maybe i'm just thinking deep into something that's unecessary. But i don't think it would hurt to try and figure things out yourself. Make up your own ideas and change the typical into something different that may fit your perspective.

If no one ever told me or showed me how to ride a bike or drive a car or cut hair or polish nails or comb my hair would the way that I percieved it to be done or managed to teach self to do would be considered wrong in the eyes of one who was actually taught by someone else....

hhhm...i don't know. maybe it should just be a healthy balance of both. Ask questions, get answers, decipher and research the answers to fit your own perspective. And in the mean time think for yourself. ask yourself questions and get your own answers. Teach yourself how to do something then check the "proper" or "society's" way of doing it and see the similarities or differences and stick with which ever suits you best.

...i guess.