MIND:FRAME

Hindsight Bias Jeremy Fusco Hindsight Bias Jeremy Fusco

If I had been there/said something: The tragic art of one-away

When we reflect on tragedy, trauma, and loss there is an underlying sense that finding fault in ourselves will bring an understanding of what may have been instead of the truth of what is.  We find ourselves at a crossroads of memories versus the alternate reality we create. A reality that is based on a perception that we can alter time if only one interaction, one second, one comment was changed.  This sensation of one-away diversions comes on gradually through a line of thinking about what role we play in the trauma or loss that has begun to occupy our mind. The internal brooding becomes a battle of false-memory entanglement as we amplify microcosms of time into deep abysses replayed frame-by-frame. {READ MORE}

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