The power of Perception

Did you notice this pic..It's so faint that we don't know what it is until we see carefully. Similar to our perceptions. One of my colleagues shared an incident with me which came to her from mouth to mouth.

A traveller was in the flight and waiting for the passenger in the next seat to occupy. The guy walks in and he appears sophisticated, well dressed and groomed and sits next to the window The traveler thought this guy seems to be good enough to strike a conversation. and tries to initiate the conversation. The guy doesnt respond. The traveler thought to himself " What an ill mannered person could he be?" After a short while, the airhostess, walks in and offers a drink to the guy and he just waves his hand to say no not even looking at the air hostess. The traveler is shocked and thinks to himself" How rude?"


After a few hours of journey, the flight lands and there is an announcement." All the passengers who are flying to XYZ place and have to fly through so and so airways please unboard the flight immediately as the time left is too less" The guy walks to the traveler and says" Could you please excuse me, I need to get out of the flight because I lost my wife and children in an accident in the XYZ place"


One unfortunate and unavoidable thing in life is that we are so bound to form perceptions about people that we cant live without them. If we have no perceptions we may end up feeling low about ourselves. Based on my observations and Incidents we form perceptions because of  :

• Fears and Insecurities
• Our expectations
• What somebody told us
• We dont know what it is like 
• We dont want to think
• We are happy this way because it doesnot add pressure

 It's been so easy to write but too hard to deal . A life without perceptions would make life so docile that its hard to live in the world of modern times.

Life makes becomes so pleasant without perception. Imagine a life where you don't have to worry about what your neighbours think about your friends, you don't have to worry about what your boss will think about your work but you give your 100%, you don't have to have sleepless nights, you can get healthier and peaceful.

But its not possible Is it? More to go...