First of all, memory is gathered by experience. This experience is what leads to the development of our minds. Using our memory from the past, we now see things for what we are and not as they are. For instance, I remember when I was a child that my sister would stay quiet when she is having a bad day or when she is in a bad mood, I use that memory and relate it to the future events in a sense that whenever I see someone being quiet, I see them as if they are in a bad mood. This is because we, as human tend to classify and isolate certain ideas to our liking since we are wired to do what comforts us the most, we are likely to understand only what we expect or want to see or hear and neglects any other possible details that are not familiar to us. From another’s perspective that quiet person could simply just be a quiet person without any reason at all. Since we cannot change the world around us, we change what we believe the world to be to fit our own standards and our own beliefs and defend these through the use of our memory from the past.
When I was on my holidays, my whole family went to the United States to spend our Christmas and New Years. One night, we all wanted Indonesian food, so my …show more content…
There are some cases in which we see and understand things as they are and not as we are. For example, when we see that the sun is rising, we know that this means that morning has come. Even though there may be time differences in different parts of the world, the fact that the sun is rising means the same thing to everyone. In this case, people’s backgrounds and cultural context will not matter. Whether it’s someone from the United States or someone from Indonesia, when we see the sun rise we will be able to tell for a fact that it is morning. This is due to their sight do not differ across cultures when they see the sun