“Your Perception is Everything"

"I once heard someone say that in writing, and in life, there’s only one story-line, and it’s that nothing is ever as it seems. Sometimes I wonder if this is because everything is malleable. Everything is someone’s perspective of it, most often your own. No two people see everything the same way, so how is there anything definitive, when it’s all a matter of perspective?

It’s the root of fear vs. hope, failure vs. triumph, and so on. Because what is failure other than our own assertions that we’ve failed? And where do those assertions even come from? The ideas of other people? Because their ideas are just perspectives too."
- The Truth About Everything by Brianna Wiest.