Photographers understand that an image can be made ugly or beautiful depending on the angles of the camera. The two pictures shown below, are identical except one is an upside down mirror image of the other.
Seeing the picture on the right, a young man would frame it and hang it on the wall, whereas if he sees the picture on the left , he will not do so it unless it happened to be a picture of his beloved grandmother. Seeing is behaving. What we see determines what we do.
Similarly, city people see the situation differently than people who live in the remote country side. Most city folks see snakes as dangerous animals to be avoided, but villagers see snakes as delicious food. Many city dwellers have difficulty in understanding the attitude and behavior of the village folks, in the same way rural people are befuddled by mentality of the city folks.
We live in a world with diverse histories, ideologies, cultures and religions. Even within a single city, a village or a household, each of us lives our lives like no other person. Our experience color our perception as a stream takes up the color and flavor of the terrain it flows through. This is unavoidable and perhaps it is the way it should be, because if all of us think the same way, this world will become unbearably dull and boring.
