Reality Isn’t An Option – Facts Are Persistent Creatures
Posted on October 21, 2009 @ 2:26 pm - Written by BawldGuy
The human condition is one of constantly merging what we want with what we perceive — with what is in fact, reality. It sounds vanilla simple as ya read it, but we all know what a dangerous outlook human perception can be if it’s not aligned with the world’s merciless empirical truth.
I remember with a wincing smile the day I arrived at a friendly broker’s office to drop of an offer. It was way back in another life. I hadn’t seen this husband/wife team in over a year, so was lookin’ forward to the visit. When I arrived the wife happily remarked, “We were wondering who the chubby blond guy was.”
Ouch! Not exactly how I perceived myself. 
That was the inauspicious beginning of my marathon career, another post altogether. Suffice to say, the next year or so saw a loss of 40-something pounds and over 7 inches on the waistline. Ultimately it was the consequence of merging reality with perception. The whole ‘perception is reality’ concept is true enough, but the so-called reality is often nothin’ but a mirage, as was my laughable ‘lean and mean’ self image. Read the rest of this entry »