Known for different things at different times by different people usually do not aid the motive or the cause of my impregnated course or discourses. This is compounded by an often reticent and sometimes elusive self. No thanks to an onerous society bereft of absolute levers of control, a sometimes indifferent attitude and the ghosts of many girlfriends past. No be my fault o!! However, in the quietude of my unalloyed intents did the best of my actions seem to manifest.
It is often an elevated challenge to find my true and entire understanding or that of any human as I have come to realise. A happenstance that often leads to myriad of personality conflicts with different people of diverse sense of perception in many varied instances. As a keen student of the Mind, I find myself tinkering with the notion of human behaviour in the context of perception of self and the hordes of people in the world.
The nature of humans in relation to people and the world is often premised on perception, no doubt. In his book, The Power of Thought; Henry Thomas Hamblin opined that “We each live in a little world of our own creation”. A creation based on our perception and a perception based on our instincts. And perception, they say, is everything.
We are all of different genetic makeup, different personalities and different perceptions; an obvious truism that it is. However, what maybe uncommon is that our perception is often premised on a false notion of the people and the world as we know it. Our perception is premised on what we have been programmed to perceive and our personality often evolves as a reflection of such perception. A closed jacketed society as we have often insulates you from perceiving the world otherwise. What is perceived is what is thought, what is thought is what is acted and what you act, my friend, is your personality.
Thus, a flawed perception will create a false notion of the world or a flawed character or even a conflict of personality with the world and sometimes with self. The conflict with self may result from a variegated self introspection and awareness.
A madman is thus a madman because you’ve been programmed to avoid him like a pariah. True, a madman may probably be sick but he really is just an entirely different individual who perceives the world quite differently and probably more clearly than you do. He is unrefined and unabated in his assessment of the world as validated by his vagrancy. His actions are not bordered by limitations of can do or can’t do as the present society imposes. He is a free man, free to explore.
At the end of the day, we all are a constellation of different personalities, hues of different characters and subtleties of many strains. This is what makes us who we are and makes us respond to the world around us the way we do.
I have always thought that there is more than meets the eyes in this world of ours. This often keeps my mind heavy, active and somewhat boggled. It is the one big reason I woke up this morning to scribble this blog. It is consternating to realise that the perception of hordes of people about the world we all live in maybe faulty and erred.
If all there is to the world is to be born, play around as a toddler, eat, sleep, attend school, go to the university, graduate, get a job, get married, grow old and pass on; then the world is just a void of nothingness.
But then, there is more to the world. One just needs to find it.
Foye.
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