Changing Outlook

Perceptions as I experience can be and are as individual as we are individuals. Through communication or self-talk one is able to change one's own perception. Sometimes through persuasive communication from another person one can experience a change of what it is they perceive. Stopping and gathering facts before making a decisive opinion based on an immediate situation can offer serenity to self. Serenity can also be achieved in situations that are disturbing [by] allowing oneself not to force oneself to have [an] opinion. When I find myself making a decisive decision based on false perception and/or facts I feel stress and find it harder to function naturally. Most of the time is spent processing and fighting within myself to find a fact that is true to fit my false fact's truth thus [showing] me being right. I believe there can be no greater mistake than to believe in a false fact.

People's opinion or perception of another person can be devastating when judged thru a mind that is not at peace with [it]self or has a low self-esteem it feeds poison. [Likewise] when this person shares and speaks without integrity about what they perceive the other person's character to be.

While my perception may be correct it is not always accepted. It can be that it is not important to someone else, or ..

January 2004