Today we are to write down five things that we believe to be absolutely true. From there, we are to detach ourselves and look at those beliefs from that different point of view and to see if they are still true. If they aren’t, why do you think they aren’t true and reflect on it.
Five things that I believe to be absolutely true:
· The colour red is red
· My mother is my mum
· I am placed on this Earth for a reason
· There are both good and bad people in the world
· The way I perceive myself is never going to be the same as someone else who perceives me
Now if I look at these beliefs with detachment, it can take quite a philosophical approach.
The colour red is taught in childhood and we all are meant to see it in the same way through sight and in our minds through some brain perception. What if the way I see red is not how you see red. What if it had a different tinge the way I see it to the way you see it? I see it as a warm, vibrant colour but what if you saw it as a dull colour? I am confident that science can systematically have a logical answer for this, and how we view things such as colour all the same, but there is always that what if question. What if it's not the same?
My mother is my biological parent and I spawned from an egg in her body that also resided in my grandmother’s body – it is said because my mother grew as a female, she would have had her eggs inside her body whilst in my grandmother’s womb. Can’t remember the term for it but there is a whole science behind it. But if I was an egg in side my mum who was inside her mum, could it be possible that my grandmother is actually my mother? Who is not to say one of her spare eggs was me and I just developed in my mother’s body? If reincarnation is a thing, what if my mother was my sister in another life and we’re just living over a hundred lifetimes in different types of relationships? No one really knows right?
If I believe I was placed on Earth for a reason and I think I know my purpose, but what if I am completely wrong about it and I don’t actually know? Maybe I have some other mission I haven’t thought of. Maybe I’m a being from another dimension with a secret mission… who knows? Maybe I’m not placed here for a reason but I’m part of some higher power experiment and I’m being tested somehow. We could even be in the matrix. Haha!
There are good and bad people in the world. I think we all have good and bad in us, but good and bad is defined by some societal standard that classes us into an unseen system, which dictates how we act. What I perceive as good and bad might be completely different to you because you have another set of standards. Maybe when humans first came into being, there was no good or bad and everyone was the same. Maybe some people decided one day that they didn’t want to be the same as everyone else, so they broke some protocol and they weren’t so normal anymore. It’s possible it could have started some black sheep mentality because they didn’t fit in anymore, and that’s how we get different personality types and some measure of what’s normal. Maybe that’s how “bad” people came to be. Maybe we all start bad and try to cover our tracks by doing “good” things to try and achieve some goal. Gosh, this lesson can really go on forever when you take some philosophical approach.
And finally, the way I perceive myself will never be the same as how someone else perceives me. I mean that’s pretty profound in itself, but it’s true. The way I perceive is never going to fit in an exact mould to another person. It’s probably the one truth that is real. I just don’t think it’s plausible for two people to have the exact same perception as each other. It’s not like we are carbon copies of each other… or are we? I’d like to think that this is the one truth that no one could talk me out of. I think it’s possible for people to look at me and share the same like of a feature of me, but then there will be a feature they dislike which might not be the same. The way one person loves me won’t be for the same reason someone else does, just like the way I love myself. If we weren’t free thinkers, then we would all think the same and perceive the same.. but we’re not and therefore it’s a truth that can’t be beaten.
How did you test yourself with your truths? I had so much fun with this lesson by the way! I'm not sure if that was the route I was supposed to take but that's the way I went!
