"I-Glasses"

So we all know the term, "rose-colored glasses", right?
When someone makes a situation seem less severe, or nicer than it really is, we say that they're looking through these metaphysical "rose-colored glasses".

Something that has been bothering me lately is sort of an artifact of these "glasses".

They say that there are many sides to every story.
The problem with that is that each of those sides comes from a different person.
In reality, there's only one side to a story: what actually happened.
All these subset "sides" is merely an opinion that can change dramatically based on who you ask.

This can be seen very easily with highschool drama.
Take any situation you may be familiar with.
Every involved party will have its own story, with the facts skewed in one way or another.
And something you will notice about this:
Every person's story is crafted in a way that lifts up that person.

Nothing is ever that person's fault, or he's the victim, or did something really nice or good, or whatever.
This is probably a natural human thing; everyone pretty much does it to a degree.

In essence, we have a natural tendency to look at our lives through glasses tinted with a shade of "me".
If you looked through glasses with red lenses, everything would appear red.
So looking through glasses with us-colored lenses, everything appears to be our "color";
maybe you could call this self-centered-ness.
Regardless, i'd call them "i-glasses".

If you look at a bunch of your friend's myspace pages, there's a trend towards using the word "genuine" in the "who i'd like to meet" section.
And it's true; everyone likes people who are genuine.
But are we, ourselves, genuine?


I'm sure we all know people with this tendency to stretch stories to fit themselves.
But we should strive really hard to not be like that- look at life through glasses colored in the opposite of yourself.
Be genuine to your friends and family, and don't be petty.
Go out of your way for other people, and try to make yourself unimportant to yourself.