As we grow older we learn new things and start to build new opinions about them. It is not necessary that every one has to share the same opinion. As a child I was taught in school that every story has a fixed moral and that is the one that the teacher talks about in the class. We have to agree to it whether we like it or not. I believe this was one reason for my loosing interest in school. I hated sitting through classes that were pre planned and the teachers disliked me and complained to my mother for having a misbehaved child. My mother always kept worrying about this and so did I. I was under the impression that I would never get along with the children in my class that my teachers would never like me. It was not until I reached the 10th grade that I realized that I was not wrong, I just did not want to agree with the fixed opinion that was put down by the teachers.
As I began to read I started to analyze everything and understand it better. This improved my perception and ability to interact but it did not help me in writing. I still see things differently from others though I don't know why. But I have made an adjustment with my perception. Jane Tompkins talks about perception and post structuralism in her essay Tompkins is correct to come to a conclusion of nothing but confusion and the understanding that it is perception that makes the present and the past a mess. Thus no one really knows what is past and if the past is the mystery then the present is a joke.
The quote that I am putting down is a way of explaining the complicated relation between perception, past and the present and the biases contradiction of all that we have been thought to believe in. "After a while it began to seem that there was something wrong with the way I formulated the problem. The statement..., but the judgment couldn't be made because all possible descriptions of what happened were biased, seemed to contain an internal contradi...