Stripes and checkers
Colorful designs reside in black and white
Melting together into a blended gray.
Perception of them all blending together
Reality becoming a blur
Until all you see is one solid design
Colors don’t matter
Shapes are irrelevant
It’s simple perception that creates the new look
Through the eyes of one who never sees
Through the blurring of confusion
The new look appears and grows stronger
Strength and belief builds into reality.
Who ever said ignorance is bliss is a liar. I hate not knowing what is going on….even more than that I hate it when there are ignorant people around me….maybe some people can be blissful while ignorant, but not me. At the very least their ignorance pains me. I hate it when I feel like I’ve lost some of my intelligence because an ignorant person was around me too much that day….sometimes you’re stuck around stupid people and it sucks.
Ignorance is only hurting the world. I can’t imagine the changes that would happen if we could educate people on the issues of the world and actually have that information soak in. All of the education in the world is never going to help our society if people aren’t willing to admit that we have problems in our society. But nobody wants to admit that they or anyone around them is stupid or ignorant….
Some people like to gain knowledge and squash the ignorance in its tracks, where as other people just like to ignore the problems of the world, even while those things are staring them in the face. I don’t understand how people can live like that…choosing to be ignorant. How can a person not desire knowledge, I thought it was human nature for the longest time…and yet I see people choosing ignorance over acknowledging issues in the world every day. Some people want to live in a book that is only painted with the pictures of their mind, their issues, their beliefs….not ever accounting for the fact that there are people who live outside of their eyesight, that there are people who don’t feel the way they feel, who don’t believe what they believe, who don’t know what they know…who know more than what they know. I can’t believe that some people can be so ignorant and so vain that they seriously cannot see beyond their own front yard so to speak.
Perception
Reality
Spinning Round
Never stopping
three stories, one event
three people, never the same
three views, nothing similar.
what truth is in perception
what beliefs are insulted by the other
When one disagrees
Who is in the right?
Who knows what is true?
It doesn’t matter in the end
Perception is the only reality.
Perception, Truth, Reality….
It’s strange when you think about the relationship of these three words. Your perception of the truth is your reality…it doesn’t really matter what other people see as true, because the truth is different for everyone. Three people could see the exact same thing happen and yet three different stories will come out of the event…how is this possible? Who is telling the truth? How can everyone be honest and yet no one know the truth? These are all questions that I’m sure police officers have to deal with all of the time.
Is there such a thing as absolute truth? If our perception is our reality, and reality is what you live by and how you arrange your life, then does an absolute truth really exist? And if it does exist, does it matter? Is it important to know the truth or simply what you believe to be the truth. Some people can live in denial for weeks, months, or even years about things that they don’t want to admit to themselves is true. They could have proof right in their hands and still go on believing other wise. For them, their beliefs are their truth because they can’t handle the thought or don’t want to have to handle the thought of another reality. They want things to stay as they are, and the only way to keep reality from shifting to is to hold on to that false security… to put up a wall and convince yourself that nothing matters except for what you “know” to be true.
A person’s mind is a very powerful thing. I think that there is a lot of truth to the phrase, mind over matter. A person can convince themselves of just about anything if they really want to, or sometimes need to, just to survive. Does it matter that we know the truth, or does it matter that we understand our perceptions to the point where our reality will help us to survive? Does any of it matter beyond what goes on in your own head?
Perceptions bend reality
Looking through a tunnel
You only see the small light
Looks enjoyable, go to the other side
Might not be what you expect
Might be better, might be worse
Viewing perceptions of another
Looking deeper than your own thoughts
Can be useful, can cause pain, can create understanding
Perceptions change, everything effects them
But what you see, is not likely what they see
Consider the other side of the table
Consider another’s view point
How can you stand against something you don’t understand
How can you judge something you don’t know about
How can you live only seeing one point of view
cnj222 | 
10 3rd, 2009| 