Reality is what we perceive. It is not necessarily the truth. It is only our perception of the truth.
This country bumpkin went
into town. He walked into the general
store and saw a mirror something he’d never seen before. He looked straight into the mirror and was
startled. "Oh my. How did this store get a painting of my
deceased father? Oh, how young he was in
this painting." He kept walking away and
going back to see if this was truly the painting of his father. He couldn’t leave a picture of his father
here at a stranger’s store, so he decided to buy it and take it home. He was afraid to tell his wife that he’d
spent money on a painting so he put it in the barn. But, it also bothered him to have his father
sitting alone in the barn. As often as
the farmer could, he’d run out to the barn to look at the picture.
The farmer’s wife become very
upset about how much time her husband was spending in the barn. Finally, she
went out to the barn to see what could be attracting him out there. Then she saw it – the picture. She went up to it, took one look and said,
“So he has a mistress – that explains it.
This must be her picture. What an
old battle ax!” After much thought, she
decided she was not going to make an issue out of it. As she stared into the mirror, she said, “If
he’s going to pick someone so old and unattractive to be his mistress, he deserves
her.” -Rabbi Elliot Schoenberg
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