What you do and what you don’t see!

Tricky things those perceptions, they are so built on castles of sand in most cases. For instance I can perceive there is something wrong with me if someone doesn’t like me, or I can perceive there is something amiss with the other party, or I can just put it down to differences and no one is ‘wrong’ in any way at all.

Perceptions are subjective and depend on the paradigm you have constructed in your own mind. If you look at perceptions they are like a continuous flow going through us all the time based on the information coming into our senses and being translated by our mind. Some are real and some are imaginary. Some are intuitive and nebulous and some appear so concrete and irrefutable, but we must always keep in mind they are just our perceptions and no more real than anything else is, except to us. Sometimes we translate a situation according to stereotypes and then find out it is something completely different.

For instance if you saw a young male wearing trainers and a hoodie, running fast towards an elderly woman your immediate reaction might be that he is going to mug her, and when he grabs her and drags her to one side of the pavement you might think you are right, until you look up and see something falling off a roof above that was landing exactly where she was standing.

Another example is at party where three people attend the same party but one loves it, one is ambivalent, and one hates it. So they are all at the same party which is right, and you realise it is just a matter of perception. Nothing is as it is but life itself is as you perceive it. So you can perceive yourself happy or angry, sad or lonely. Whatever you decide, that is what your experience will be.