Life Is 10%

By Toby Lieder                                                                                             August 31, 2015

It is all in the perception. It is through your own unique particular lenses that you, and only you, will see the world the way 'you' do. Nobody else is wearing 'your' glasses. Nobody else came to this age and stage in life where you are right now, with your life experiences. No two people are the same. Even twins have two completely different perceptions of the way the world looks like to them. 

Two people can walk into the same room, see the same people, experience the same environment of conversations, fun and laughter, yet come out with an absolute very different experience one from the other. 

What is it that differentiates us one from the other? That makes one experience joyful and exhilarating and the other, boring and lifeless? What is it that occurs in that same room the exact same setting, same people etc, yet one person is happy and one is sad.Could it be the atmosphere was both happy and sad at the same time?

What is going on here?

I feel the answer lies in ones perception, ones reference, in ones own mind that makes it or breaks it.

I believe that life is 10% what actually happens to you, and 90% how you react to it.

It has nothing really to do with 'the other'.

If we are wearing rose coloured glasses, then the world will look all rosy, right? If we put on a pair of black sunglasses the world would look all dark to us, right?

Its the 'same' world! the world didn't change its colours!

We changed. We put on these or those glasses.

Perception, is the way we see the world. The world, life, people, the schools, the shuls, the community, etc are all neutral. It just is what it is. We put on pink glasses, and it looks all rosey. 

Everything depends on our attitude, our 'way' we look at these things. 

The 'things' are just things. We are the ones that are in the control tower directing our thoughts and perceptions into the right/wrong flight path. We can choose to put on which-ever pair of glasses we want to!

Gevald! Why would we want to choose the black dark story when we can choose the happy rosey one? Next time someone says something negative about your shul or school or community or people or anything that matters, hand them a pair of rose coloured glasses and show them how easy it is to have a happy sweet peaceful way to view the world. 

Its all our choices at the end of the day.

It is all in your own hands.