I was playing with my camera one day, snapping away some still objects, trying to kill some time. After 5 minutes, I got bored, aiming at almost everything and clicking away, I felt that it is pretty pointless.
So I told myself, do a small exercise, within 60 seconds, look for all objects that are yellow-tinted. Suddenly, the shooting become challenging. I went looking for objects all over the house. Okay, next, now all objects that are round, GO!
Yes, I know, you must be thinking how self-entertaining I am. Well, it is always better to have certain objectives in mind than to be lost at doing something, even when we are killing times. 😉
But isn’t this amazing? Looking at things through the eye of pinhole. The result of it are things that you selectively wanted to see. If you want to report how boring a party event is, simple, take a camera and shoot at all those lonely people sitting by the corner drinking, or people that don’t smile, looked bored etc. Your party event will look really boring through the eye of the pinhole. Alternatively, you can snap at happy people, laughing people, people that are in the party mood and all of the sudden, your party event looks like a real success!So in actual fact, is the party event really boring or really fun?
Welcome to the world of perception, where everything is judged based on the way you looked at it through your own pinhole. All of us have our own perception, how we looked at things, how we looked at people, and certainly how we looked at life itself. To some, this world is full of hope, dreams and pursuits. To some, they always believe in the goodness of people but to some, they felt everybody is for themselves and very self-centered.
I know of a family man that was being retrenched by his boss due to down-sizing and yet he can tell you that his boss is doing the right thing. Another friend of mine, who also got retrenched, ended up cursing and blaming his boss for all the things he put him through. So who are we to say who is right and who is wrong? Again, different people, different perception.
We lived in a world of our own, literally speaking. Yes there is only one planet earth, but there are different worlds within the same planet. To each its own world, I must say.
The world that we lived in, unfortunately or fortunately, is created, crafted and designed by our very own self. Of course there are circumstances and experiences that shaped our perception towards the world we lived in but again, they can only influence us. Our world is still basically what we choose to see, what we choose to hear and what we choose to believe.
Did you pick up the keyword that I just mentioned? Yes, the keyword is “choose”.
There is a choice to perception. Whilst it is hard to change perception, yet God gives us each a free will. The power and the ability to choose. Altering your perception in life is a decision away, but it takes you to recognize that you are looking at the wrong pinhole. You must first realized that your perception is not doing you any good.
How to change? How you change shift the focus of your camera is how you change your perception. The way you used to think, change it. The way you looked at people, start giving the benefits of doubt. The way you looked at life, start smiling at it. The next thought that you entertained in your mind must be questioned, think through and approved by you before processing it.
So, you ready to play the camera game? If you are, stop snapping at objects you used to snap and now within the next future of your life, snap at other objects with a different perception, this time round, a better one…
Of Life and Thoughts 