Hiding everything

"Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not a truth." -Marcus Aurelius

The reason that everything we hear is an opinion rather than a fact is because of the way we want to hear it. Most of the time when we hear something we want it to hold the best outcome for us. As humans we have been raised to be selfish in the way that we hope everything works out for us, we want to be happy with ourselves. We also hear things as opinions because of the way people express things. The same category of selfishness falls on them because what they say has to have the best outcome for them, so it may not be a fact but rather an opinion that benefits them.

There's no reason why we would ever want to hurt ourselves. For that reason, we have the capability of filtering things to see them in the way that we WANT to see them rather than in the way we SHOULD be seeing them. That's why everything is a perspective, not a truth. The perspective we create of things is something that we make for ourselves, and most of the time that isn't the truth