Perception is generally defined as when you are effected personally or internally by something external. Which to me sounds like the description of most things that happen in a general day. Being effected by something that happens at work, or another driver on the road, even the rain. So what percentage of perception....really does constitute reality?
How often has someone said something to you that you know they didn't mean, or said something in such a way they obviously meant something different by it? If we were to stop perceiving (or analyzing) in those situations...would it remove the not-so-hidden thoughts or feelings behind it? Or would it simply cause them not to effect you and remain the property of the person thinking them?
If the latter is true...would that be enough to change your life? our society?....or would it merely pro-long the inevitable outburst from "the thinker".
Such a catch 22....i often see people who at least appear to have no great care about what others think of them, it's obvious in either how they dress, what they say, or how they simply pay no attention to the world around them as they go through life (think all those people in the grocery store who nearly or do run into you with their carts). Are those people actually happier? is there such a thing as blissful ignorance?
Bliss would certainly not describe the feeling of the person being hit by the cart...or having to stand behind the person in line who obviously got dressed in the dark....But if all those watchers stopped watching.....would all the thinkers stop thinking? and everyone just be honest?
Would honesty, and flat out straight forward "tell-me-how-it-is" really work? Would it make things better or worse?
Where would you be without little white lies? or a great big bucket of sugar coating?
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