How Our Assumptions Colour the World

Why we struggle with meaning and being after trauma.

I live in a broken world. If you’ve lived through trauma, you might live here too. It’s shadowy, cold, and unsafe. The floor tilts under your feet. You reach out to grab a hand that isn’t there. You fall to the rocky ground, again and again.

This is the world after trauma.

Trauma affects every layer of our selves. We react physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually.

After trauma, our prior world crumbles. Sometimes, it collapses. As the dust settles, we survey the ruins. We see the world through eyes that have witnessed the worst thing possible. We view the landscape with fear and mistrust. We narrow our eyes as people approach.

It becomes hard to trust the world again. And it’s even harder to find meaning amid the rubble and destruction of our lives.

As humans, we hold beliefs about our lives, ourselves, the world, and the people we love. Growing up, we learn how the world functions. Over time, we develop a worldview. We adhere to assumptions about life and how we fit into it.

Our assumptions about the world are usually silent, but they deeply guide our responses, our philosophy, and our development. In some ways, we are a collection of assumptions about how the world works.

We all hold implicit and invisible pre-judgements about the world and our place in it, such as:

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