Understanding An Anomaly In The Collective

I was talking to a younger gal, about 27 years old.

“If this is everything you know,” I said, with my arms out, held in a circle. “Then this is your paradigm,  Everything you run into you, you’ll try to fit it into this space.”

She nodded.

“And it works pretty good,” I said. “It works for most things but then what happens when you meet anomaly? An authentic anomaly is very rare. Most people don’t recognize one at all simply because they’ve never seen one in the first place.”

“Yeah?”

“Yeah, so when a person runs into this authentic anomaly, they of course try to fit it into their paradigm,” I said, holding my arms in a circle again. , “But an anomaly won’t go in there. By definition, an anomaly goes over here,” I said breaking my hands apart and pointing over my other arm. “By definition the anomaly does not fit in a normal paradigm so if a person cannot or will not go outside their normal range of thinking, they are going to be lost on this thing. They will not be able to figure it out, ever… perpetual confusion.”

She nodded.

“So I’m telling you, you’re dealing with an anomaly, a real one.  It’s exciting if you’re smart or one hell of a problem, and one you’ll never solve if you are not. I’m sorry but I can’t make it any easier for you. Anomalies exist. They’re out there and now you are going to meet one and I have no idea what you are going to do but whatever it is, the anomaly will stay an anomaly. It will never fit in the paradigm unless the paradigm expands to include it and to do that you have to perceive it, I suppose. And then draw yourself a new line.”

After that we both smiled.

Have you ever met an anomaly? Tell us.