# Reality
- URL: https://www.petrikajander.com/reality/
- Author: Petri Kajander
- Date: 2004-10-30
- Language: en
- Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6b5Q8Coh7I

Reality is a subjective phenomenon. It consists of our personal understanding of the structures around us. It is an interpretation based on inner perception and insights. Our reality is something that we take as the ultimate truth for us, something that we cannot question and that is the basis for our existence. It is the building block and foundation upon which everything else is placed.

Subjective reality has nothing to do with the physical world around us. Our reality is just based on the observations and conclusions we have drawn and understood with the best of our perception. One way to illustrate this is to look back in history. Not so many centuries ago people believed that the world was flat. It was a nonquestionable fact, like the presence of day and night or the soil underneath us. What happened later on was that humankind made more precise observations of the physical world and was able to adjust its understanding and perceptions based on new evidence. Today, no one can seriously claim that the world is a flat surface. We can take a flight and observe it with our very eyes. Our subjective reality is dependent on our capabilities and, therefore, it is unique to everyone. Also, it evolves over time but the physical reality remains the same.

We are children in a larger scale; when we grow up, our perception and behavior change accordingly. Grown-ups do less kids' stuff and their understanding of the issues are altered together with experience and better understanding. Humankind goes through the same process, but the cycle is naturally longer. Humankind's progress takes generations, whereas children expand their consciousness each year. History demonstrates this development. The United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights was declared for all people on earth just under sixty years ago. Physical wars and abuse of power are less tolerated now than in the beginning of the twentieth century. The progress has its unit in generations—not in years. All it takes is our internal reality to develop. Each individual contributes to the process, and collectively we declare who we are and what our perception of the reality is—our truth.