Perception.
Try connecting these dots.
Have you ever played this game called, "Pass down the message"? Very often the perception of the last person on the line is very different from that of the first person, though the exact same message is supposed to be passed down. This is perhaps, one of the greatest imperfections of life. The way we conceive information.
Have you ever played this game called, "Connect the dots"? After linking up those dots on the paper, you took a second look and nothing was emerging from the image even though you thought you're linking up something? You looked again, and realized you have linked the wrong dots in the first place. People think they can connect the dots, they think they can conceive the resulting image just by looking at those dots, just by their first impression. They link up the dots according to their impression, and the dots never lead them to anything because the dots are not meant to be linked up in the first place. Perhaps, impressions by itself, is a defect.
Our impression leads to our perception. Impressions are like random dots on a surface, while perceptions are the images that we plot in our minds before we even start linking up those dots. We get impressions everyday in our life, but why do we always have to connect the dots? Sometimes, they really have no meaning at all. By linking up those random impression, one would only get a messed up image that looks more complicated than a 6th Dimensional Orb structure.
I want to take things in life as it is. Capture these impressions, make them beautiful, yet making sure I don't make a perception up of it. Why bother making perceptions when impressions by itself are blissfully appealing. Don't make a judgement, don't attempt to plot the dots, just appreciate it. But very soon, I will be getting myself a magical pen, a pen that I can use to help me plot these dots, without me forming any initial perception of what the image will look like eventually. I'm very confident that this pen will help me form the most beautiful picture out of these random dots. This pen is just, magical.
My Magical Olympus Pen.
PS: I want to leave many different impressions on many different people in this post. I wrote it this way. Draw a perception based on it if you want. But honestly, I dislike such perceptions that complicates life. Words are just words.
Till Long,
Peyu.