{"id":16692,"date":"2011-09-18T16:35:15","date_gmt":"2011-09-18T20:35:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/?p=16692"},"modified":"2011-09-18T19:01:54","modified_gmt":"2011-09-18T23:01:54","slug":"we-dont-see-things-as-they-are-we-see-them-as-we-are","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/we-dont-see-things-as-they-are-we-see-them-as-we-are\/","title":{"rendered":"We don&#8217;t see things as THEY are, we see them as WE are"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think it&#8217;s hilarious that even when something is in writing so it can be easily read and understood, and just a few lines, \u00a0many, many people read stuff into it that clearly is not there. \u00a0It&#8217;s true, we don&#8217;t see things as THEY are, we see them as WE are. \u00a0And boy, are we unfocused, out of touch and take stuff personally. \u00a0Glad I&#8217;ve stopped taking things personally and thinking it&#8217;s all about me. \u00a0 As <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ValerieAllenWriter.com\" target=\"_blank\">Valerie Allen<\/a> says, &#8220;It is not reality, but our perception of reality that leads to our actions.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div id=\"s-share-buttons\" class=\"horizontal-w-c-circular s-share-w-c\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/we-dont-see-things-as-they-are-we-see-them-as-we-are\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share to Facebook\" class=\"s3-facebook hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=We don&#8217;t see things as THEY are, we see them as WE are&url=http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/we-dont-see-things-as-they-are-we-see-them-as-we-are\/\" target=\"_blank\"  title=\"Share to Twitter\" class=\"s3-twitter hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/share?url=http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/we-dont-see-things-as-they-are-we-see-them-as-we-are\/\" target=\"_blank\"  title=\"Share to Google Plus\" class=\"s3-google-plus hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/shareArticle?mini=true&url=http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/we-dont-see-things-as-they-are-we-see-them-as-we-are\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share to LinkedIn\" class=\"s3-linkedin hint--top\"><\/a><div class=\"pinit-btn-div\"><a href=\"\/\/www.pinterest.com\/pin\/create\/button\/\" data-pin-do=\"buttonBookmark\"  data-pin-color=\"red\" title=\"Share to Pinterest\" class=\"s3-pinterest hint--top\"><\/a><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\" async defer src=\"\/\/assets.pinterest.com\/js\/pinit.js\"><\/script><a href=\"mailto:?Subject=We%20don&#8217;t%20see%20things%20as%20THEY%20are,%20we%20see%20them%20as%20WE%20are&Body=Here%20is%20the%20link%20to%20the%20article:%20http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/we-dont-see-things-as-they-are-we-see-them-as-we-are\/\" title=\"Email this article\" class=\"s3-email hint--top\"><\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think it&#8217;s hilarious that even when something is in writing so it can be easily read and understood, and just a few lines, \u00a0many, many people read stuff into it that clearly is not there. \u00a0It&#8217;s true, we don&#8217;t see things as THEY are, we see them as WE are. \u00a0And boy, are we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16692"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16698,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16692\/revisions\/16698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}