Perception

Many times our perceptions are very distorted rather than clear, self-defeating rather than constructive.

First things first. Distort: to twist. Following the quote, many of times our perceptions are distorted. We love to twist things into what we want them to be rather than let it be straight up. We are so fearful of the truth that we refrain from the mirror or what we actually might look like inside; we choose to see things in another dimension rather than what is actually there. Other times our perceptions cause us to beat ourselves up because we have been built up around these ideas that we cannot break from them, and we choose to construct the right thing. But before we can find out about ourselves than other, we need to find what are perceptions? Why do we have them? How can we escape from them so that the quote above isn't true?