Saturday, October 08, 2005

The Essence of Perception

Sometimes I truly wonder if I am in this world. Living in the US, most people here are down to Earth. I always imagine what it would it would be like if I were to be suddenly put in some chaotic situation. How would I respond? What would I feel? What would I be thinking?

Lately, life is a connection to your body. Other days life is everything you are. Life is really a bunch of electricity circulating through your brain. A bunch of endocrines and hormones move about your brain creating emotion. A bunch of neurons storing all of what you have known and perceived in the world.

But, really, how do we have this thought? Have we ever really stopped and wondered how complicated our thought processes are? How one tiny action can sever our whole connection to this world? Then imagine how there are imperfections in our body. Can there not be imperfections in our own brain. Can abnormal behavior be accounted for by the tiny differences in our structure that make us unique.

Indeed, from one person to the next, our perception of the world is completely different. It is important to remember that whenever you consider multiple sides of an opinion, you remember this. People do not understand and see things the way you understand and see them. They too believe their way is the best way, and they too believe that one way is the best.

Now, think of the whole race of man. This combination of different thought processes and thoughts that have flowed through so many's heads. The satisfaction that comes with the comprehension of some mad idea that suddenly seems sane. How crazy we are in our own magnificent ways.

What makes you beautiful is not what you appear to be to others, but what things appear to be to you. Only then can you react in a way that is beautiful. But your reaction is not where it starts. It all starts in the original action being observed by the eyes of the beholder.

Don't forget: in war, everyone is justified.

Of course, what do I know?

Are we just electricity or is there a true form in which we will all eventually dwell. Your life will be over soon to come; the journey, salvation, nirvana has just begun.

Breathe in the air...

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Haha, so before when I couldnt figure out how to leave a comment it was fer sure because I pressed the "Email this to a friend" icon. I feel stupid. Anyway, I'm gonna write you a quick poem.

Oliver is super cool
He's so hot he's burning
And we have lots of fun
When we're in science not learning
You live in the CBC and I'm rather jealous
Cuz you know how we do in the 612
Jealous rhymes with overzealous

Damn that shit was phat.
-Hannah ;)

Anonymous said...

You seem to be thinking what the rest of us are thinking. It's silly to call it thinking because we're thinking all the time. Thought process is something we're born with, it never stops until death. (And who's to say it stop then?)There is no relating to other people. You can never understand how others feel. You can understand how you feel. That's it. Being similar is something we all try and try to hang on to, it's our comfort. But we also have the comfort that we're all unique. And sure we are. Just as unique as the rest of the world.
The Nirvana has just begun...interesting...
Remember life is what you make it. You choose to be happy or not. You control that.

These words of yours are incredible. Keep going.