Perception

I have been thinking about perception lately and what it really is. This is what I have gathered so far.

To me, perception seems like more of a phenomena than anything else. For one, it is not tangible. Much like thought, we do not grab it like we do a pencil or a notebook.

Perception is unique in all of us, which is why opinion is so powerful. Opinion is so powerful that we have no definite answer for it. From perception comes opinion, a process, again, that is unique in all of us. Though we sometimes find a person with the same beliefs, ideas, and opinions as us, those beliefs, ideas, and opinions, in essence, are not the same. They are just similar.

Perception allows us to see things through logic and reason. When we weigh the difference between good and evil, we see why one is good or why one is evil. These depictions may not be correct to some, but there again is where opinion comes in. This is the reason people do not always trust perception--it is easily malleable. People's perception can change--usually slightly at first--in the time it takes to snap two fingers, though most take longer than that. The downfall is not that people change their own perception based on someone else's perception, that is good--to see different sides of an idea. The downfall is in taking someone else's perception as your own, and neglecting that which you already have. To apply a concept or idea is one thing, to replace it is another.

Because perception is malleable, it is often misleading. Perception is something that can change, even if slightly, and we often are in question with the validity of it. Because perception is misleading, in that it is not definite, we are mislead into questioning our own perception. How can one have the answer if there is no answer to be had? How can one be right if there is no way to define right in this sense? My point is, why would you let someone else define what is right when there is no right to define? There is no answer, therefore no one is right.