J.P. Donnelly – It started off as an ordinary day, working from home with my television playing in the background while typing at a computer. A talking-head appeared on the TV and uttered that famous phrase “We know it’s not right, but perception is reality, so…” That’s all it took for me to close my laptop and unplug from the insanity of life for the remainder of the day.
Perception is reality. I was familiar with this phrase during my formative years when educators made philosophical arguments about trees falling in forests that nobody heard, or about tigers lurking behind picket fences. I agree that what we perceive is subjective, with five witnesses to an event describing five different outcomes.