Observations
Truth vs Reality
Observing isn’t always easy. We look, we watch, but we don’t apprehend, we don’t absorb. Our minds wander. We don’t really see what’s right there, in front of us, other images we have absolutely no control over, emerge. They just come and blind us to the world that is in front of us; we can even touch them, feel them, smell them, but our eyes look inward, at a point in our head where those images stream like videos on a screen.
It happens all the time. Awareness of those moments is scarce or if it happens, is just for a moment or two, after which it vanishes and our virtual reality continues, taking us away from this truth to another one that seems as true or even truer. Misleading, confusing, dangerous even, especially when we completely believe what we see and all our senses react to it, leaving reason, the boss of the other reality — the physical world that surrounds us at that moment — , out of the picture.
We act influenced by those images that seem so true, so real, and when we wake up to the other truth, the shock is tremendous. But we still want to believe what we [think] we saw and felt when the images of that so real reality, that nobody else can see but ourselves, displayed right there in front… no, inside us, absorbing our existence in its totality, embracing us, imprisoning us.
So many truths. Mine, yours, hers, his, theirs… If at least we could all see the same reality.
Written in February 2022
Pictures: Laon Cathedral (France); Munich (Germany)
