There is no reality, only perception. Perception is your world. What is it you may ask? It’s the way you see the world. The way you live in it and make your decisions in it. Every different individual has her/his own perception and hence her/his reality. This is what creates an individual. Now perception comes from experience and learning. It’s a chain meaning that what you learn will weave your imagination and experience. This experience will force you to make decisions on what you like to learn, which makes all these spontaneous. This dynamist - within and without – makes your perception variable/dependent on your experience and learning and that’s reality, which turn out to be your way of living. This confusing and inevitable cycle – lets call it the reality cluster - starts from the time of your birth.
One must pause here and take a look at the bigger picture. Every other person’s perception – in whose presence you have been – has an effect on your reality cluster not limited to Parents, Peers, Media and Relationships. It is like two processors, one yours and the other his/her/it’s. Their action is through their perception of the world or the reality and their action will have an effect on your reality cluster. It’s all spontaneous, continuous and infinite. This goes on further deep and is much more messier, so I will stop here.
Now lets take an example of two women. One bought up in a cold bloodied, pecimistic and rich family/society will look at today’s world as a dump for low grade, psycho pomp, and down-the-drain losers. She will curse and finger at every other person with a turban or a beard. However one who has been raised in a well-to-do family, a responsible household will perceive the world as a place where there is still a place for people with good heart and trusty friends.
Ultimately it boils down to the fact that the way you are raised, the society you are brought up in and the friends you have determines your reality cluster – which you share with others too. ~tired~