Perception

Call it a coincidence!

I have been hearing about perception in various context. And, today it happened. There were some schedules circulated with dates for action items and responsibility. I was always looking at the date and was okay with the schedule. The fact happened to be that the person who was sending the dates was thinking that this is the 'sixth' month and was giving dates from June. I never realised this till the time he himself explained the date mistake to me.

This perception is one of the 'actors' in the movie "The Sixth Sense". The director would have used this perception to bring out the suspense in this sci-fi thriller. The message is "your eyes only see what they want to see".

The other movie was "Shallow Hal". The perception about beauty is well explained in this movie. There will be a dialogue in the movie.
"Beauty lies in the beholder's eyes"
"What is beauty?"
"Beauty is what the media projects as beauty. We dont look beyond that"

May be the statement is true. The inner beauty is the real beauty, but, we are trained, right from our birth, to consider only the external physical attraction as beauty.

If this is the case, there is no big difference between our life and what is narrated in "Truman Show" or in the worst case "Matrix".

Leaving everything aside, there is one beautiful song by Madonna on the same subject.

"
you only see what your eyes want to see
how could life be what you want it to be
you're frozen...when your heart is not open
...
"

Listen to the song "Frozen" when you get sometime...it is very nice.

...bright

PS : Can anyone tell me how to add video or audio clippings to the blog? TIA.