Things are not always what they seem!!!

Do you know how many times this statement have made me eat my own words. If you are honest you may have had to do the same thing too on a few occasions. Things are not always what they seem. Perception is what we go off of a lot of times; what we see we think we know. But sometimes what we think we see - we know or our perceptions may not be found in what we see. Most times it is in the conclusions that we draw. As a psych major I am aware that there are different types of perceptions. One of the definition is "a neurological process by which such recognition and interpretation are affected" which means in layman's term that something goes on in the brain/mind that affects what we recognize and how we interpret them. I always like to draw the parallel with the spiritual and the natural because they always co-relate. They both coexist like conjoined twins. (Just a sidebar, " if your spirit ain't right, you ain't right.") What we recognize, we interpret is a process in the natural which in the spiritual translate "judge not (people) and don't judge a thing before its time." In other words don't judge people and don't judge a thing/situation before the right time.

Since we are limited in our abilities to know everything, when we see something and it appears to be what we may interpret they can still be wrong. A woman with a big stomach doesn't make her pregnant. So the food for thought here is that what we see or have access to analyze doesn't mean we are right based on how we interpret it. We can be so far left field in actuality. People may disagree and say what you see is what really is. But I have lived long enough to know that this isn't always true. People can make you see what they want you to believe and people can make you believe what they want you to see. Do you know how many times I have seen so called happily married couple, only to know if you were a fly on the wall in their home, it wouldn't surprise you why they split? It is all about perception.

Discerning is also an act of perception. Perception is based on what is obvious but discerning requires a lot more. This is more than what meets the eye. Discerning involves motives that exposes our character based on our actions. Discerning is spiritual and it is usually pure and objective. Perception can be looked at a forming an idea based on what we see. Quite the contrary to the real deal. Not saying we may not be right sometimes but before we jump to conclusions especially the wrong conclusions and act like a judge and jury, assessing a situation based on what we think we know because of what we see, let's remember things are not always what they seem.
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