The Sight – Hindsight is overrated!!

// December 11th, 2008 // My Thoughts

Seeing is believing right? Most of our current perceptions about the world around us is based on what we have observed with our eyes.

Interestingly even our powers of visual observation are not quite as accurate as some would like to believe. Countless times a large group of people has observed a single event but individuals recount the event completely differently based on their “perception” of the event.

perception is the subjective analysis of observation – in non-geekspeek – perception is “the way YOU see things” so… that brings me to the meat of the matter.

I have taken some time to look at the subject of television, and I have really been thinking about the impact that it has on our society.

several points that almost immediately jump out at me.

  • Television effectively corrals our perception by limiting what we can observe visually
  • Our perception is skillfully funneled by the comments and “perception” of the director.
  • Television facilitates a disconnection from the perception of “reality” and replaces it with a new perception of a fabricated reality

At this point I hope you are realizing what we are getting ourselves into! Decades of tlevision have effectively begun the process of replacing actual reality with a more desirable “reality”


So what do we do? how do we choose the REAL reality? How do we know what is Real?!

Well, my choice has been to “unplug” I have simply chosen step by step to really live my life! – no more making excuses, or saying “one of these days”. Instead of living vicariously through reality TV and un-ending movies, I make choices on what I really think I should do and not what others tell me I should do. I choose to discard the perceptions of others and form new perceptions based on things that I know are true because I have searched them out!

Now comes “The Sight” all I can say is that things look differently now, choices are no longer the things that I spend weeks fretting and worrying over but they are opportunities to live differently! A great quote from The Matrix that I spent weeks thinking about is “We can never see past the choices we don’t understand” and I came away with this- People live their entire lives avoiding the big choices in their lives and they “never understand” why nothing works out for them! Choices have been flying past them like telephone poles on the freeway and each time they take the “default choice” hoping that things will just stay the way they are. They never actually take the time to “understand” the choice.

So unplug!
Choose to see differently
Understand your choices and MAKE them!
Live your choices with full abandon!

You will soon see that hindsight is overrated!

Tags: Apple, choice, choices, Faith, Family, Fun, perception, Religion, sin, worry

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