Thursday, September 14, 2006

Reality Is A Matter Of Perception

"The existence known as the mind
in the vessel called the body"

The way a person judges their life is all a matter of perception. It is going great, it is going well, life is just terrible. In my opionon life is great in general, no matter how hard things get, its just what a person focuses on that makes it bad. For example, I know one girl who life is going horrible. She hates the school she is in, blames her parents, etc, but her life revolves around school. What is even worse she bases her school life on what the "popular people" think. Unfortunately she is not popular, therefore life is terrible.

Anybody can say she will grow out of that, in which she most definitely will. But what does it evolve into as an adult? Adults base how their life is going off of their job, money, house, marriage, family etc. The list can go on forever. How many men killed themselves after Black Tuesday when the stock market crashed? Their whole perception of life was based on money, and when they lost their money they lost everything. Truthfully there is no right or wrong answer to how a person perceives what is important in life or how their life is going. But if they way a person views life brings pain and suffering, why keep that view?

Ultimaley, we choose how good or bad reality is.

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