Perception - ToK essay

Theory of Knowledge homework, I tried not to pay attention to the biology exercises. I looked around – the first thing that I noticed was the fact that we are inside a room, which might be a place, where people meet to socialize and do some of the daily work. Second was the fact that the people around me are trying to convince each other of something – afterwards some other emotions on the faces were noticeable. Some of the people got into despair; some were happy and were lost in thought and did not show any signs. It seemed that in this place people experience many emotions, which may appear in other environments - this place looked like simulator, a place to get ready for the real life. I looked at the window and I saw that people outside had much more thicker clothes than we all had – clothes are like shell to protect us from the outer environment and the interaction of the nature was seen. Afterwards I inhaled the air of the room; I felt that there was food in a different room.  I saw an apple on my table and which was brought by someone of the surrounding people and the apple made me feel kind of happy, because it made me feel comfortable with its presence, but I realized how I could not get eyesight off of it.        The same situation in with different understanding would actually make everything completely different – while the group work was in progress, exercises were divided for each one of the groups. Some were happy the easy ones, some were sad about hard ones, and some of them didn’t really care about it. I looked outside the window and saw that people were dressed warmly because of rain. I ruled out that the weather is too unpleasant to go outside for lunch and as I started to think about lunch – I could feel the smell of cafeteria making the lunch menu’s for us, but this made me even more hungry. I looked around for some food and I finally saw an apple on my table, which was not mine -  I grinned, because my hunger had already planned evil plans for the apple, but I could not take the apple, because if I did, someone could’ve gotten angry with me. The only thing I could do was to keep on dreaming about it.        As you can see, these two descriptions are completely different, but at the same time identical, because the first one is very wide, but the second one very specific. The first description actually opens your eyes, to the real value of the world, how wide and full of opportunities it is, but when you use the reflective thinking which is already programmed in your mind with years of experience – it narrows the road of life and ruins our opportunities, since we don’t think too much after we see something that triggers something already known in our mind. We should more depend on our own individual perception, to make everyday life more interesting.