Have you ever been a victim of perceptions? Have you ever been an initiator of perceptions? I absolutely believe that 50% of the world is based on perception and 50% of the world is based on reality. Why do I believe this? In all honesty, I believe that a lot of people are not as bad or do not have bad motives behind what they do as much as society or individuals give them.
One of the best examples I know of this is with pastors/preachers. The stigma of many pastors, especially in the African-American context is that many of them are about money, power, control and manipulating the people of God. Now granted there are many pastors about those things I mentioned, however I do not believe every pastor fits that criteria. I believe there are pastors who actually have a heart for God and for people. Therefore I kind of believe that it is possible that MANY PASTORS HAVE RIGHT MOTIVES BUT BECAUSE PEOPLE VIEW PASTORS BASED ON THE OVERALL PERCEPTION OF THEM GENERALLY THEY ARE LABELED AND PUT IN THE SAME GROUP. This might explain why so many pastors fail. Maybe it's not totally the pastor's fault? I don't know.
Last, I believe that many people have special talents they can offer to society, but are scared of perceptions. I believe many people would like to be more vocal in society and in their respective areas, but because of perceptions, they do not want to be labeled. Unfortunately I think that too many people based their perspective of things on personal experience and the history of the thing. In other words, this is why you have some blacks who still have negative perceptions of whites. Not all whites are racist or don't want to see black people move up, but because of past experiences it's hard for them to see it any other way.
What would the world be like with no perceptions? That would be heaven on Earth!!!
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