Seeing is Believing. Or believing decides my truth?

We know we are being fooled. And yet we buy tickets to a magic show wanting to believe the wonder. Every magician knows the trick needs to be seen as unbelievable. The magician believes in the trick as much as the crowd believes in the fantasy. Funnily, when we figure that we have not been fooled properly that we discredit the performer!

Probably, the mirror image to the question makes the most sense - ?Is believing seeing? Or does our belief make us see things we want to see?

Religious beliefs, for example, make us believe a lot of things science may end up showing as beautiful imagination. However, in most circumstances, human consciousness is similar to religious conformity. We are conditioned to first believe before we are made to see it. To turn the belief table and show us otherwise is a painful waking up from a magnificent dream.

Language plays its part well. “It is highly unlikely” or “that’s improbable” keeps an inch wide gap of a little possibility of it being true, isn’t it?

Let’s take the example of that innocent studious child who is in everyone’s good books. S/he is quoted as an example of how perfectly behaved children should be. The child has never been in a quarrel, carries a clean handkerchief, nods to all elders, and is always found busy doing something productive. In contrast, there is this other kid whom we know has been reprimanded multiple times for multiple blunders for their age. S/he has pushed other kids off their bicycles, run away from class, argued with elders, has pressed buttons of all floors in the elevator, and taken the stairs him/herself.?We have never interacted with either of these kids standing at the farthest end of our so-called ‘social behavior spectrum’. We create an archetype of the spectrum in our believing minds. Until, one fine day you cross one of these kids, who actually ignores you totally and walks past nodding with headphones on. You are still unsure which end of the spectrum does this one represents.

In professional life, we all mostly work in teams. We immerse, interact and engage in order to collaborate effectively towards a supposedly shared vision and goal. However, we all have our interpersonal and social skill limitations. In addition, our life experiences may make us hard to trust people easily. Which many times, compels us to either seek ‘informal feedback’ about people and proceed accordingly, either with caution or celebration. We tend to create an image of Mr/Ms. X basis this hearsay, and instead of trying to actually know the real person, start finding trends around one-off occasions, start assigning disparate meanings to certain words, and/or configure a motive to validate our suppositions to finally bring that image to life with our clear and unsound belief. Let’s go with hearing is believing then! Believing is something?we do as individuals. The mob/crowd/group mentality is an external motivation just enough for us to reignite our belief in our own suppositions, more deeply and strongly.

Interestingly, I have not seen God. Neither have I seen the earth or human evolution. But I love to argue, only to look for a justified explanation, reason, or logic to what’s being claimed as true. However, we are most likely to stay dilutional of what we want to believe because we have already decided on our truth.