I see a man approaching a café table where two women, perhaps a woman and a man, are talking animatedly. The two people at the table take no notice of the approaching man, at least for the moment.
How will the scene continue? Will the two at the table greet the man happily? Or is he a stranger who is even perceived as a nuisance by the two of them?
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I myself have often been in situations where I felt excluded and not belonging. In which I would have liked to sit at the table, perhaps in a seat that was already occupied by another person. Or in a place where I had previously sat but no longer sat.
In some cases I have realized that the place I would like to sit in or have always sat in may not be mine (anymore). Someone else might be in a much better place there. But that doesn’t mean that there isn’t any room left for me at this table. Maybe it’s just a different place. After all, there are three oranges in the fruit bowl on the table.
Maybe there would actually be a seat for me at this table that felt right, for myself and everyone else. Maybe the right place for me is at another table. With completely different people. In a completely different café.
Figuring this out is perhaps life’s greatest challenge: finding your right place. And to get up again from a supposedly right place as soon as it turns out to be no longer right.
Pictures tell stories and every story says something about the person who tells it. Based on an old projective test, the TAT, we show a prominent personality a picture and ask them to interpret the scene. You can find more articles from the “One picture, two questions” section here.
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