Thursday, August 31, 2006

Second Writing.. it's about perception.



People have their own way of seeing and perceiving situations. So, in a problem, who is right and who is wrong? Is there a possible way of discovering that?
Woof woof! I notice that the dog had a recent scratch on the top of her nose. “See that scratch on the dog’s nose?” Nicholas asked. Uuhh is so difficult to see, hmmm let me think were can it be? Duh, it’s so obvious. I thought. Nicholas is the father of the two kids I’ve been babysitting. I wouldn’t exactly call it babysitting; 10 and 12? Do they even need a sitter? Anyway. “Yes I can see it.” I answered in my most polite way, well you have to be polite, that depends on the amount of money you are getting, no? “The dog was running and ran underneath the picnic table and scratched her nose.” Nicholas said. Then I just tried being nice, I smiled and said, “Ooh poor puppy.”
I was looking around. Boxes, boxes and more boxes. They were about to move so the house was a total “mess” according to Nicholas. I couldn’t really see a big mess, but then again, people see things differently. The big picture of the small red and yellow airplane on top of the fireplace was still there. The piano was there too, I really didn’t like that piano, it sounds like a plugged nose. “Hi Nora!” I looked over and I saw Laura, Mom of the two boys. She looks taller than before; I looked down and saw she was wearing the highest heels I’ve seen, even though I wear high heels and she is very tall no matter what shoe she wears. “Hello Laura, how are you?” I asked. “Good thank you!” As soon as Nicholas sees Laura he said, “Honey? Why are you all dressed up?” And Laura says, “It’s a theater! Why are you wearing jeans?” After discussing what he was going to wear Nicholas went upstairs and changed. It was kind of funny seeing them fight about over how to dress.
While Nicholas was upstairs changing, Laura looks over at the sliding door and there was the brown lab sitting down with her tongue hanging from the left side. “Oooh my silly little pup” She opened the sliding door to let her in and continued, “Look at your nose, how is It.?” She asked the dog with a tone of voice that sometimes people use to talk to babies. The dog was wagging her tail so hard that all of her back was moving with her. “Did Nicholas tell you what happen?” Then I said, “Yes, that she scratched her nose.” Then Laura answered, “Yeah, poor puppy was playing outside and was running and missed the corner by a little bit and hurt her nose very much.” This is another example in how people see and perceive things in a different way. Why didn’t she say it like Nicholas, “Ran under the picnic table and hurt herself.”? So anyway it was humorous noticing that difference.
The boys ran inside the house and I showed them the ball that I bought for them. Lawrence said to me, “Look at the dog’s nose! I did it! Well we were playing outside with the ball. So I was throwing it to John but when we were playing the dog was trying to get it. So I threw it under the table, you know where the seats are so the dog went underneath there so she scratched her nose.”
So here is the last example. A father, mother and a son explaining a situation, which they are probably wanted to say the same thing, but because each of them saw and perceived the situation differently they explain it how their eyes saw it. But it doesn’t mean that somebody is wrong. It’s just the truth described 360 degrees.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

people tend to perceive stuff depending on how much they care about it...so what do you perceive the most?