Interpret my perception? Perceive my Interpretation?

You get what I’m saying?... I don’t. Do you?

Have you ever perceived a situation or entity to being something it’s not or see something that is not there or a different translation? I have, everybody does. Example: John will say Banana, you may say fruit, I’ll say delicious, Hank will say a pleasant source of potassium, and DOLE will say cha-ching! Mmm. We now live in a society where words are now interpreted by the ears that hear them, rather than the words that define them. What’s even more interesting is that sentences, paragraphs, and even stories are the same way. Ever stop to think that two people reading the same book, heard two different stories? Remember 5th grade when y’all had to talk about a book that everyone read. Thirty 5th grade imaginations trying to decipher a book, I wonder what the teachers thought?

Fiction is always left to interpretation. Truth however cannot be perceived without some sort of Fiction being the result.

So what happens when someones perception of the truth creates a fiction? Could be better or worse than the actual fact. It doesn’t seem that important but lives are changed because of this! Go back to a crossroad in your life where you had to make a decision based on information put in front of you. Were you right? Did you see it for what it was or for what it appeared through your "own" eyes to be?

Event: a murder
Fact A: X stabbed Y with a knife.
Fact B: Y died of blood-loss.

2 statements, both facts. Equally gruesome, I apologize for that. Where am I going with this? What if you were only presented with one fact or the other? When presented with Fact A, one might ask if Y is ohk or did this poor letter die. Now Fact B, on the other hand says that Y died of blood-loss. One might ask how did Y lose blood, Did "X" or "Z" kill Y. Get where I’m going now? Look down, XYZ

Whether that helped or not it is important to remember to let certain things be left to interpretation, like stories and my occasional rants. But truth...it is what it is.

Truth is real, it is weighted by Facts. Perception is....well, I’ll leave that up into your interpretation.

I'm from Black Hole, How about you?

Are you getting sucked in?

You ever go on vacation and towards the end of the trip, you almost want to go back "home". Ever move away only to come home at the first chance you get? Oh yeah! Whether it’s a big city with plenty of opportunity and great friends or a small tired town with no chance to do something extraordinary, where you’re deadbeat alchoholic stoner friends like to drag you down, we can’t help but say " Home Sweet Home".

Why is it that the places we come from have a stronger gravitational pull than the planet we live on. At "home", you can jump and immediatly fall straight down; Go to Los Angeles and jump up and you fall down but drift slightly eastward.

Whether it’s Betty Sue, the girl you’ve liked since the 8th grade or the comfort of you’re parents being in throwing distance, their is always a certain comfort level that comes with "home". But what happens when that girl you’ve wanted to be with for what seems like your whole life, has a kid and/or is married? What happens when the house you grew up in is tainted by the loss of a parent to tragedy or family troubles have arose, is it no longer feeling like your "home"?

What keeps us here? Compromise, Failure, Fear, Jaded? Let’s write ’em on paper and we’ll all pick the feelings out of a hat. We can put Compromise in there 10 times, as opposed to the others only once. Values mean nothing when you compromise. Love means nothing when you compromise. Happiness means nothing... when you compromise. Does anything personal to me really matter if it’s altered for the sake of convenience? Am I impeding the growth in my Career or settling on my Love Life for the feeling of being "Home"? These are questions that we ask ourselves every day.

However, sometimes homelife is great and you’re the guy that put a ring on Betty Sue’s finger and you are the perfect ending to the story. But if you’re on the other side of the rainbow and everything is not "happily ever after" It is good to know that there are other places and other people....

So...Dorothy? (Yeah, I’m calling you that character played by Judy Garland in Wizard of Oz!) the next time you find yourself in Emerald City with those ruby slippers, will you click your heels?