Over our extremely elongated break, I came across an advertisement video while wandering aimlessly in YouTube land. The video was about a magician, or illusionist, playing magic tricks on this famous Indian Guru. After demonstrating the magic trick, the magician and the guru had a really insightful talk about perception. The magician said that his job is to alter how people perceive things to make them seem magical and furthermore asked the guru what he thought about perception. This is what the guru said, "The word perception in social transactions are used as my perception compared to your perception. In reality it is my distortion to your distortion... perception means to grasp something by the way it is." there is only one perspective in this world and it is the literal state of how everything is. Each person has different distortions of the reality of the world they live in. Some may believe that eventually people will achieve equality and there will be no sexism and racism , while others may over exaggerate reality and think that there will never be equality and those who try to achieve it will fail and suffer. Notice how I projected a distortion while presenting the two examples, maybe people never will achieve equality and it wasn't over exaggerated after all. How one see the world will always be different from how others see the world; our distortions are formed by many factors such as denial of what is too painful to acknowledge and lack of experience or insight. Everyone carries a distortion of perception and it's possible that nobody will ever perceive our world with the true perspective.
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