At the
beginning I thought it's a waste of time and a useless activity we took during
the English class, it was two pictures, the first was a group of spotty wild
horses in brown and white with a snowy mountain in the background. The two
"objects (mountain and horses) made a lot of people confused and lost a
little bit. Every single student thought the picture in a completely different
way, people thought it's a simple mountain, other thought they were a bunch of
cows in the snow,… Even the second
picture, it was two people one playing guitar and the other listening and
however with the background they seemed like to old couples or friends looking
face to face. With the time and the discussions, the Miss started by saying the
true objective that was behind these two pictures it was literally the
difference of our response to them and its it called somehow the
"perception". Our responses and thoughts were reflects about our
culture, education, religion and so much more. And also our way of thinking..
Well personally the first thing I thought or came in my mind about the first
picture (the one of the mountain and horse) is the horses, because looking at
my education or culture, horses and horse breeding is something essential in my
brain, and I think that this is the magic thing that let me caught the horses
from the first sight. So I can easily say that your way of thinking to
something is way different than another due to your education or childhood or
whatever even religion sometimes.
Well,
relating this so called "perception" thing to Egypt to me is the
political life we all live in more than the social. While millions vote for a
candidate, other million votes for another and so one, it is obvious now that I'm
talking about the famous Egyptian presidential elections 2012. A lot of
arguments and debates about the most appropriate president for this time to
comfort people and returns back Egypt to its familiar high place between the other
countries. Selim El Awa, Ahmed Shafik, Mohamed Morsi, Amr Moussa, Hamdeen
Sabahi, and so on.. A lot and a lot of
thoughts in each mind than don't really matches from a person to another. But
let me tell you something, before judging we have to think about peoples
thinking and know why does this thinking comes from, believe its sophisticated
to describe it in such words. But thinking about poor people who doesn't have a
piece of bread to feed their children, there only thing that will influence
them to a candidate is increasing the income of poor people and giving them
comfort, and thinking about the middle class which is a really rare class
nearly vanished needs also increasing income but not also and they want safeness
and safety, and talking to high class which is the minority of Egypt's people
they want safeness and safety but not as much as increasing Egypt's political
and economic standard between other countries.
Well after
a lot of words written about perception, I can easily resume that another
answer who's not matching yours is not always a wrong one, but to judge it, you
have to think at first why did he think of it, so that (I think) what is
PERCEPTION IS..
