I see the world though only my eyes.
I hear the world through only my ears.
I taste the world through only my tongue.
I touch the world through only my body.
I smell the world through only my nose.
I feel the world through only my heart.
I understand the world through only my mind.

These are the only things we can truly know. Anything else that doesn’t come through our own senses and perceptions are just hearsay and second hand. But all around us in the world we are continually being influenced by what other people see, what other people hear, what other people think.

By the time I was 13 I had learned to only listen to what I believed, not what other people said or told me. I was very tall, skinny and red-haired. As a kid I was teased for being tall and skinny. I knew early-on that I wasn’t going to be able to fit in and be like everyone else. I learned to question everything and to argue for what I thought and probably to be suspicious of anything that can’t be substantiated. Attributes which probably made me not the easiest person to get along with. Especially here in Sweden, a country where “conflict” is a dirty word.

But I’m glad that I turned out that way , especially in today’s media drenched world. How do you know what is real? If you don’t personally know the person who is the talking head of the moment. If you weren’t there when the video was taken or the photograph captured by the camera. If you haven’t read the book or heard the speech in person. How do you know what really happened. You don’t I guess. And that’s where you mind comes in. Its not one of the 5 senses but its the most important thing you have. When I was a teenager, my mother once told me I think too much about things. But I don’t think you can ever think too much. But you can however, think too little and in today’s world that’s not a good thing.