From: Grant Callaghan (grantc4@hotmail.com)
Date: Sun 16 Mar 2003 - 22:12:55 GMT
It is not possible to see everything undistorted- that is omniscience, and
only imaginary creatures have it. Perception is always an act of filtering
an already incomplete and referentially biased input, not to mention the
fact that one cannot see oneself, perhaps the most important player in the
scene....
- Wade
Yes, that's especially true about the stories we tell ourselves and others
when recounting the story of our lives. We are the central figure but we
are seldom see that role the same as people around us see us in it. I went
back and interviewed many members of my family to get material for a book
and found that a lot of what I remembered was much different from the way
they remembered it. I doubt that any of us remembered things exactly as
they happened, but we do tend to make what we remember fit into the story as
we like to tell it.
Even when I look into the mirror, what I see is colored by what I want to
see. Pictures of me somehow show a different person than the one I see in
the mirror. There is both truth and fiction in every reflection of my life
and being.
Grant
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