Perception

Perception. We all have it and use it all day long. Perception is different than fingers in that it colors the way we experience people, places, and events, in the past, present, and future. How is it affecting your life?

Six wise men of India,
An elephant did find
And carefully they felt its shape for all of them were blind.
The first felt toward the tusk "It does to me appear,
This marvel of an elephant is very like a spear."
The second sensed the creatures side extended flat and tall "Aha!"
He cried and did conclude "this animal's a wall."
The third had reached toward a leg and said "It's clear to me
What we should all have instead this creature's like a tree."
The fourth had come upon the trunk which he did seize and shake,
Quoth he "this so-called elephant is really just a snake."
The fifth had felt the creature's ear and fingers o'er it ran
"I have the answer never fear the creature's like a fan."
The sixth had come upon the tail blindly he did grope
"Let my conviction now prevail this creature's like a rope."
And so these men of missing sight each argued loud and long
Though each was partly in the right they were all in the wrong.