Imagination, Culture, and Perception

In this blog I am going to give my opinion about the way in which we perceive things around us can affect our lives. First off as we can notice, information that we have studied provides us with a very good example of how perceiving a thing in our own way, shapes the way in which we think about that thing  during a long period of time, or sometimes the rest of our lives. All of us know that in order to see all what happens around us our eyes collect information and transmits it to our brain, but the way in which each of us imagines how that happens is so different. In that situation we can say that the way in which an individual is imagining a situation is affecting the in which the individual is living.

Besides of this depending on the way in which we perceive things, our reaction for most of the events will be different. When I lived in Spain I knew one person who was from a different country. After becoming friends with him I realized that for each event that happened, his reaction was way different than the reaction of the rest of individuals. I remember that one time this person had a pretty bad score in an exam, and started to cry. Many people would see this as a really weird thing, but my believe is that this person used to cry for failing an exam, due to the fact that education in his country is taken so seriously, so this really impacted me, because I could see the way in which the culture of this person shaped his reaction to one event. While this person was crying for having a bad score, other students were laughing and not carrying about it, due to the fact that the culture of those students is different.  

So as we can see, in this case the culture of the individual shaped his thinking about studying, so the way in which he perceives some information is different to the way in which a different individual from a different culture is.

Besides of this, another good example for this is the way in which each person sees the death. Many people imagine death, as an event in which the soul of one individual is reborn in a plant or an animal. So this people maintains that believe all their life and perceive the world on a different way, while for example followers of God may believe in different beliefs that affect the way in which they perceive the world and life.

This difference of beliefs will probably create a variation In the way in which this individuals will react to certain events.