The Stages of Acceptance

Truth isn't any one thing. My truth is different than my sisters’ truths and even my parents’ truths. For me, I was really able to solidly connect to the idea of “truth” when we learned about colors. However, I felt as though my understanding of truth came in three waves and with each wave came more understanding and helped me hone in my own beliefs. I liked being able to start our unit on truth with the allegory of the cave and the matrix. This helped me delve into the topic and become aware of the idea that the truth can be bent or changed to anyone. At first, being able to demolish my previous assumption that what we see and where we live is complete reality. However, the mix of reading the Allegory of the Cave and watching the Matrix helped me to break out of my previous beliefs so I was able to be more accepting of the controversial ideas we discussed.

The second stepping stone to my understanding was the exercise in class regarding the different ways of knowing. I connected to that with my own ideas of course, but then being able to hear everyones personal views on the matter, was a really good example of our different truths. Furthermore, in the end, we were all able to come to one conclusion regarding the different ways of knowing. In order for someone to become fully enlightened, one must accept all of the ways of knowing.

This brings me to the my last wave of truth. This came to me when we learned about colors from the TED talk. Color is something that almost everyone is able to see in some form and the TED talk sort of brought to me the idea of how color affects different people and in different ways. Specifically, the ways of perception with color or color blindness and color within music. Our perceptions of color can change based on what we see around us. Even more on color perception, it is entirely possible that the colors I am able to visualize might be a completely different color scheme than what someone else might see. If my orange is the equivalent shade of your blue than theres possibly no test that can be done to compare them. 

Another idea relating to color that I have focused on is the relation between color and music. This idea is that some people (potentially everyone) are able to see colors and patterns when listening to music and compositions. This ability is possibly something anyone is able to learn to do, however for some people this connection can be made much more easily to some. In the TED talk when he showed a little boys portrait of a composition, it made me begin to think about how if everyone was able to depict how they heard music, it would become more clear as to how everyone in the world is able to perceive in different ways.