What you see is what you get

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We so often think we know how things fit together. Everything is right there, so that has got to be the way it is. We see it, we know it, so it has to be true…

Yet is that really true?
Can we really trust the things we see?

Just think for a moment of a nice, lazy Summer evening; being outside. Perhaps even going for an evening walk, just as dusk sets in. Suddenly the dusky shadows blend together and start creating shapes that weren’t there before. Sometimes these shapes seem to become cuddly animals. Other times they seem to become monstrous beings.
Whatever we think we are seeing may depend as much upon our mood as anything else.
And the occasional firefly, just as easily can become a fairy dancing in the soft evening air…

It appears that as we look around us, scan our environments, the shapes we see combine in our minds with the thoughts we have to create images we could swear are truly there. Until we return to them in order to pay closer attention. To observe the details. As we do that we disentangle what we see from what we are thinking about, and suddenly the things we thought we had seen turn out to be entirely different object altogether.
It is as if our mind has been playing tricks on us; however, in all reality it is as much our eyes that have deceived us.

It begs the question what it is we think we see?
Do we see things as we would like them to be? Or rather the way we fear them to be? And as we see things the very way we think they are rather than observing what is factually there, is it really true that we will get what we are seeing?

One could say that if we see a projection of our thoughts, a creation of our minds, and look at that from the perspective of ‘what we see is what we get’; then one could argue that what we get is not necessarily what we see, but rather what we think. That our minds create an image which at some point ‘we get’ in our lives.

To me this is an interesting line of thought.
It would imply that what we think will create what we see ~ or at least how we interpret the things we see; how we relate the things we see. And as we see these things that are put forth from our minds, we are one step closer to manifesting it in our lives.
So while it may be true that ‘what we see is what we get’, perhaps that is preceded with ‘what we think is what we see’…
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