{"id":1548,"date":"2024-11-07T15:39:57","date_gmt":"2024-11-07T15:39:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/life.bchenstudios.com\/?p=1548"},"modified":"2026-04-20T12:20:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T12:20:22","slug":"what-is-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/life.bchenstudios.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/07\/what-is-reality\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Reality?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I have seen things happen<br>Where another person saw that exact same thing<br>And we walked away with a completely opposite<br>Interpretation or belief of what we just saw<br><br>This happens because of perspective<br><br>Unless we are viewing it from the exact same spot<br>at the moment we see it<br>We are going to see it from a different perspective<br><br>As I have gotten older<br>I have learned to try to move around<br>To get different views from different sides<br>A view from the side I&#8217;m looking at<br>A view from a different side another person may be looking at<br>A view from the top<br>The bottom<br>The front<br>The back<br>The most complete view as possible<br>before I form my interpretation or belief about what I just saw<br><br>Because my Interpretation or belief about what I just saw<br>Is going to create the reality I live in.<br><br>My grasp of reality is how I navigate My world.<br>The same is true for everyone.<br><br>Therefore, it&#8217;s very possible to have a different reality than someone else <br>which results in <br>living in a different world than someone else.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Which is fine with me<br>To each their own<br><br>But in order to remain sane<br>It&#8217;s important for me to realize<br>My World is just a fragment of the whole world.<br>The whole world is made up of fragments of everyone else&#8217;s world.<br><br>So just because something is a reality in My World<br>That doesn&#8217;t make it a reality to the whole world.<br><br>A world full of unicorns and bogeymen may be a reality to some.<br>But it&#8217;s not a reality to all.<br><br>True.<br>Enough individual realities can line up <br>to the point<br>That a consensus is established<br>and accepted as being the &#8216;real&#8217; world<br><br>At that point<br>If my reality doesn&#8217;t line up<br>I must be cool with that<br><br>It&#8217;s when I try to change the reality of others<br>especially others <br>in what is considered the &#8216;real&#8217; world<br>The majority<br>Try to change their reality to line up with mine.<br>Because my &#8216;reality&#8217; is right <br>and theirs is wrong<br>That creates conflict<br>Conflict creates struggle<br><br>There is enough struggle in life without creating more.<br><br>This is an easy fix.<br>The only reality I can control is mine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve always heard the phrase &#8220;Perception in not Reality&#8221; but when perception dictates a person&#8217;s life choices how is that not the reality they are living in?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-random-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/life.bchenstudios.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/life.bchenstudios.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/life.bchenstudios.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/life.bchenstudios.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/life.bchenstudios.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1548"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/life.bchenstudios.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1574,"href":"https:\/\/life.bchenstudios.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1548\/revisions\/1574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/life.bchenstudios.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/life.bchenstudios.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/life.bchenstudios.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}