Usually, it feels exhilarating. It’s almost like the thrill of a new adventure that you are about to embark upon. The landscape stretches out in front of you in all of its glory and magnificence and all you have to do is reach forward and all its mysteries and wonders are yours to discover. And you can’t believe it. Immersed in the magical world you have stumbled upon, you lose track of time. Until the adventure ends and you must return to your mundane existence. But it promises to wait for you, until you can slip away again for another adventure, another rendezvous in this enchanted realm.
And so you wait excitedly, hardly able to contain yourself as you count the minutes painfully go by. And when the time comes, you leave behind all your cares and worries, and once again, wander into your Neverland, eager to take delight in that wonderful place that enthralled you.
But something’s different now, and try as you might, you can’t see the beauty that this land once possessed. It’s plain and dreary now, and nothing seems to excite you anymore. Yet it’s the same as you left it and nothing has changed. Except that everything has changed, and you can hardly believe your foolish naivety and childish excitement at something so drably and dull. Your rose-coloured glasses, that you refuse to part with, have allowed you to once more set yourself up for failure, and you realize with colossal dismay that nothing ever was beautiful, but that you wished it so.
It was all in your head. There never was beauty in that picture you painted.
That’s deep….
…and sad….
Wishing for beauty and seeing it, is the same as it being reality. Perception is always reality.
Eye-da, a word of caution: Hajera’s ‘Mysterious Pretensions’ are never deep. Which means they aren’t too sad either
Asmaa, perception can’t always be reality because perception may be flawed and thus the reality that you ’see’ will be flawed as well, no?
Haj, you’re right. Reality is reality and The Truth is an absolute truth, no matter what. But, perception is a personal reality. That’s what I meant to say.
Sometimes someone’s so wrapped up in his or her own mentality or way of thinking that it becomes reality, even though they’re deluding themselves.
So, perception is reality.