Perception

"We see and understand things not as they are but as we are"

Perception is an active process. We as humans observe our surroundings, we indentify, make connections and reasons for our surroundings; we do not only look at what is surrounding us. Each human has a different way of observing the things that are around them. Some people have different values of the objects that are around them; as humans we tend to only remember the things that we consider are important to us and that can differ from one person to another. Also the character of that person can affect how he observes his surroundings. For example, a poet looks at his surroundings differently than a doctor or undertaker. Therefore we can say that people tend to see things not as how the objects are, but as whom they are.