Do you believe in life after love? Cause you might be wrong!!

A friend of mine posted this on his facebook status: 

Note to everyone: Please stop saying "it all depends on what you believe." It truly DOESN'T matter what you think. Reality is reality, and will continue on its merry way regardless of your personal beliefs. In fact, if there is a difference between your (or my) beliefs and reality, the term for that is "wrong" as in "Boy, was I wrong."

I love this friend, but I think it's a little sad that looking at reality, you can only see what is right or wrong.  The black and the white.  Allowing for beliefs and accepting the different accounts of people allows you to open yourself up to people and take them in.  I'm not saying you have to take everyone in, but perspective involves being able to look beyond ourselves, and be open-minded to differing opinions.  This just seems like a hard line to follow, and an ever harder life to live.

I think there is a reality that no one can see.  It is the truth, it is the factual manifestation of what has happened.  But no one sees it.  Because everyone sees this "reality," through their own perspectives, their own experiences, their own understanding of the world.  What makes the world so colorful (sometimes good - sometimes bad) are these differences.  Two people can walk into a room, see what happen, and have a completely different take on what happened.  Both wouldn't be wrong, and neither would be right.  But according to my FB friend post, they would both be wrong. 

I guess, in the end, it doesn't matter.  But I'm concerned with people telling me I'm wrong when I see things differently.  Like everyone else, I don't care for people telling me when I'm wrong.  I don't mind when people, who think differently from me, accept what I say, not necessarily as correct, but as what I think is my reality.  I think people who force others to believe a reality that they don't believe is right, despite the evidence, are the same people who start wars man.  I'm just saying...

So - as to not be a hyprocrite, I wrote back as a post (and just a little tongue in cheek): 

Brian - I really believe it depends on what you believe...

At least, that's my belief.