On Perspective

This is only my first time trying to tackle this one online, but I think I got it, coach.

You've probably heard perception is reality and perspective is everything.  That's because none of us can see the whole truth.  But together we can get close (or fail miserably).

I have two analogies in my Bag of Holding.  I'm sorry... there was a hole in it and most of the others fell out into the astral plane whilst seeking the innkeeper.

Analogy, the first:  imagine a 20-sided die.  Now imagine a room that smells like dandruff, body odor, and mountain dew.  Now imagine that each side of that 20-sided die is a unique perspective on life.

None of them are really wrong, per se, because you've never lived the life that led to that perspective.  That'd be like saying you don't like the output of a computer function or a math formula, even if it was computed or calculated correctly.  Instead, you should look at the formula and the inputs.  But that's beside the point.  The point is that truth has many facets, and each of us just has our number, our perspective on viewing it.  Doesn't make any other person wrong.  We're all cut from the same die.

Analogy, the second is a bit more plane.  Imagine your perspective is a straight line.  Everyone is a single, straight line.  And an infinite number of straight lines will form a perfect circle, which is the closest approximation to the truth.  

It could form something less perfect than a circle, too, something ugly, which is when groupthink takes over, but just go with it.  Assume we can pull our collective shit together and make a smooth, round circle using only straight lines like the one below.  In an ideal universe, working together, we can get to the bottom of this thing called truth or reality or whatever.

I probably have more on this, but that's all you're getting for now until I get my cookie.

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Post script: didn't even get a chance to dip my cookie in milk before I remembered the whole point of this.

Reality is not simple and it's not neat and tidy.  It's not easy to digest the way we like it, so we create lots of different stories and different perspectives to try to explain it, and some of them are able to peel back more layers of the onion, so to speak, to reveal deeper truths.

So a lot of the things I post might seem contradictory or at least a little disjointed, lacking some holistic cohesion.  Believe me when I tell you it does, on a grand scale.  All the pieces fit together.  I can see it like one sees the inter-connectedness in all and the patterns in life.  It's just no easy task to try to explain, so you have to come at it like... many single lines trying to form a circle.