Perception, in simple words is the way of perceiving the things. Different people perceive the things differently. But what is more important is that every person finds his or her perception to be right and assumes it to be the ‘truth’. This raises the most important question in mind, Is there nothing that might be called as the ‘truth’?
We say something as truth only when most of us perceive that thing in the same way. And after some time, years or centuries, when someone comes and proves that perception wrong we all change our perception to change the ‘truth’. We can check the history to see this has been happening for years. Imagine what if we could use this way of thinking to our benefit.
Every day we feel bad about something. Most of the negative and sad feelings arising are due to our near and dear ones. The more dear a person is to us, the more does he or she hurt us. Most of us do have arguments or so called fights almost daily with our friends, colleagues, parents and spouses.
All these fights are due to differences in our way of thinking. We keep fighting proving our point. Just think how often you fight with your boss in the office proving your point. It won’t take long to think of the fight that you probably had today or yesterday morning with your spouse just proving your point. Unmarried ones might have argued with their parents over something. We all keep arguing for proving the ‘truth’ that too when there is no truth at all.
If we know that there is no truth at all, then there is no point in fighting over it. Imagine that the point on which you are fighting has not got any truth associated. If there is no truth, what would you like to prove? Obviously, nothing. Wait, there is the catch. We keep fighting proving our perception to be the truth.
If there is anything which looks like truth then it is, different people might have different perceptions. Now if that is the truth then why can’t we accept it? Why can’t we accept two different ideas and ideologies over some point? There is no harm in it. Though, there is a sure benefit. We will have lesser arguments resulting into greater piece of mind. Let me know if I made sense…..
We say something as truth only when most of us perceive that thing in the same way. And after some time, years or centuries, when someone comes and proves that perception wrong we all change our perception to change the ‘truth’. We can check the history to see this has been happening for years. Imagine what if we could use this way of thinking to our benefit.
Every day we feel bad about something. Most of the negative and sad feelings arising are due to our near and dear ones. The more dear a person is to us, the more does he or she hurt us. Most of us do have arguments or so called fights almost daily with our friends, colleagues, parents and spouses.
All these fights are due to differences in our way of thinking. We keep fighting proving our point. Just think how often you fight with your boss in the office proving your point. It won’t take long to think of the fight that you probably had today or yesterday morning with your spouse just proving your point. Unmarried ones might have argued with their parents over something. We all keep arguing for proving the ‘truth’ that too when there is no truth at all.
If we know that there is no truth at all, then there is no point in fighting over it. Imagine that the point on which you are fighting has not got any truth associated. If there is no truth, what would you like to prove? Obviously, nothing. Wait, there is the catch. We keep fighting proving our perception to be the truth.
If there is anything which looks like truth then it is, different people might have different perceptions. Now if that is the truth then why can’t we accept it? Why can’t we accept two different ideas and ideologies over some point? There is no harm in it. Though, there is a sure benefit. We will have lesser arguments resulting into greater piece of mind. Let me know if I made sense…..
Very true... according to my perception ... :)
ReplyDeleteSo should we perceive it to be true?
ReplyDeleteWell true..But the very moment we start accepting someone else's perception, we'll start loosing our perception..because its not always possible to have two different answers for the same question !!
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