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Perception Is Powerful
We have been discussing this on another forum and I thought I would start the same thread here for your commentary.
Here is my opening post...
We heard this weekend about a brother who planted a garden.
What he planted was marked "Watermelon" and when he planted it he did so with that understanding.
As the "watermelons" began to grow he saw that little watermelons were starting to grow.
Some would come by and say "Brother... I don't think those are watermelons" and he would reply "Oh yeah... they are definitely watermelons.
More and more comments were made that these weren't watermelons but he never once harbored even a moment of doubt because he knew... absolutely... that these were watermelons.
The watermelons were, admittedly, growing kind of oddly for watermelons.
Finally one day he realized that these were cucumbers. Now that he looked at them they looked exactly like cucumbers. When you look at them you think... how could anybody ever think that they were anything but cucumbers?
But, in his mind, they were watermelons and what he saw each day was skewed by what his mind thought was there.
Perception, predisposition, prejudice and just blind faith...
Their power is mightier than we can imagine.
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