Our life situation, karma, creativity and upbringing, all assist in conjuring up different ideas and explanations for what we’ve lived through. Thus breeding our attitudes and opinions. Some people go to therapy to make sense of life, others seek religion. Some eat to cope, others resort to hurting themselves–physically and emotionally. To each his own evolution of mind, thought, and, therefore, perspective. What matters isn’t what one would label ‘facts’ because facts are facts until someone decides they’re not. (Ah, science.) What matters is what you interpret to be the case; reality is as you see it. All we ever have is our awareness of a reality, what we tell ourselves…our belief system. Our interpretations are directly linked to those stories we tell ourselves. Directly linked to how we perceive an event or experience. Directly linked to what we believe we did, heard or said.
And directly linked to the feelings that are aroused as a result.