You can call it peer pressure if you want to as this post and the few that will follow it were planned after I read some really good blogs in the past few days.(if I read your blog in the past few days and you are reading this then thanks.)
Beauty lies in the eye of the beholder. Is a common saying and I have found it true in many situations throughout my life. But the way I have found it to be true is not only eye but every sense organ. Or rather I should say the mind of the beholder. It is how we train our mind that determines how we look at different situations or events. I must again quote (mind you this post contains a lot of quotes) and SMS that I got "an optimist sees an opportunity in every problem and a pessimist sees a problem in every opportunity. Point of view matters in how we interact with the world around us. To a large extent this point of view or attitude of perceiving the things around us depends only upon us but there are certain situations beyond our control that affect this. The things in our control are our temper and patience that allow us to take the best out of certain situations. Our optimism to a large extent is also in our control. Based upon this we say that the world around us is a large mirror. And now about the things that are beyond our control are our society and upbringing. They do not affect our attitude in general but do enhance or diminish our ability to see the beauty in certain things around us. As an example of this I will take up some examples that I found interesting.
First of all a simple example if you were born and brought up in a hindu family will consider the swastika as sacred an and worship it. But if in Germany they find you worshipping it you might even land up in prison. In the lost symbol there is a line said by Robert Langdon "every Sunday I bow before an ancient device of torture." He was talking about worshiping a cross in a church. So the things actually sound different when you have different cultural mind-set. Apart from the symbols there words in languages that can trigger a totally different as another example the word B**d is an integral part of the human anatomy to us hindi speakers but to the Germans it is their parliament. Thus I can end by saying that the world around us depends partially upon how we choose to look at it and partially upon how our mind has been setup to look at it. But if we learn to appreciate others point of view as well as ours this world might become a slightly if not a much better place to live in.
This post over but the topic is not out. Because my next post is somewhat related to the point of view. In that case it would be the point of view of interpreting a couple of songs.
What songs….. you will know (if by an infinitesimally small chance you are interested)
Until then
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