Just like millions of others I've gone down the Youtube rabbit holes on numerous occasions. A few such occasions were about the Mandala Effect and for a brief moment, I bought into it. Then, I started to get a sneaking suspicion that despite the evidence pointed toward it, something wasn't logically making sense. Of course, I saw the video "disproving" it.
That was what made me realize, The Mandala Effect isn't about a parallel universe or the Hadron Collider or Cern. It's about everyone wanting to be right all the time. It' about everyone being so sure of themselves that they can't admit remembering something wrong even when confronted with evidence. It's about the meme where two people on opposite ends of a number are saying it's a 6 no it's a 9. Yes, one of those people is wrong when the bigger picture is taken into context. And much like that meme, the Mandala Effect is just another symptom of our society's need to be right, not informed.
So please, understand that from time to time you will be wrong, you will make mistakes, your memory will fault you. And all of that is okay. No one is perfect and no one expects you to be perfect. No matter how strict or overbearing your parents/boss/whoever might be.
We, as a society, need to let go of this notion that our thoughts are flawless and our ideas are perfect. No scientist gets every new experiment right on the first try. No author publishes the first draft. No movie is edited using only the first take of every shot (porn might be excluded there).
We need to stop deluding ourselves into thinking we are perfect and nothing about us needs to change. We can all strive to be a better version of who we were yesterday. Let's start with being able to admit we might be wrong more often than we'd like. And that's okay. And let's start with admitting while cool, the Mandala Effect is not a real thing.
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