Have you ever been in a situation where you and another person witness the same event, and yet you see it totally differently? Or maybe you’ve watched two people interacting in a foreign language and you think they look upset, but really they are just very excited?
Whenever I experience those scenarios, it reminds me of the fact that as human beings, we don’t always see things so clearly. Each one of us has preconceived notions and ideas, held in our conscious or subconscious mind, that form the lens through which we “view” this world. As the saying goes, “We don’t see things as they are, we see things as we are.”