Thursday 26 December 2013

Escalating Violence

Punching someone in the face who deserved it

Punching someone in the face who didnt do anything

Punching someone in the back of the head

Throwing darts at a picture of someone

Punching a bag imagining it is someone

Shooting bullets at a picture of someone

Shooting someone

Punching a bag imagining it is you

Shooting bullets at a picture of you ...

Saturday 21 December 2013

Perception

My family (myself, my partner and our two five year olds and a four year old) were  discussing how people are able to differently percieve situations. How two people can see the same thing but have different views on what transpired.

Then one of our five year olds came out with a very mature concept. She looked at me and said: You're a perception. And at her mother and said: You're a perception.

And all we could say was: You're right.

When everything is boiled down to a bubbling thickened sauce all we are is a perception. And that sauce may be percieved as tasty on one day and repellent the next when it is the same sauce.

Of course, any sauce with anchovies in it tastes terrible.