Understanding

Nothing is what it seems and yet it can't really be much more.

My understanding of everything colors it's meaning to me.  If I see a skeleton and it reminds me of Day of the dead, my feelings are different than if I see it as something from a horror show.

If I think you are going to insult me chances are everything you say will sound sarcastic to me.  Of course if I believe you are all sweetness and light I will perceive you that way too.

So much of the world is what I make it.

And yet there are real things going on out there that cannot be totally discounted.  No wonder it takes baby humans so long to grow up. We can't just mate with some creatures and eat the others. 

We are the deadliest creatures in the forest.  Smart enough to wipe out everything else, including the forest and dumb enough to do it.