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Life presents many perceptions to different sets of people and these perceptions is sometimes what forms the opinion of people, their values, their core self, lifestyle and even culture. To me,  perceptions can be a different aspect of reality that's individually unique to each and every human being and why do I say so? Sometimes people struggle to prove each other wrong because they believe they hold a greater knowledge of what reality is. The difference between **perceptions and Fact**  in my own understanding is that fact is a universal truth accepted by everyone, while **perceptions is an idea held by different people about a particular subject.**

"Now the sun rises from the East"* this is a statement of fact however *"getting married before the age of 20 is wrong*" is a perceptions held by a particular group of people which can either be proven right or wrong. You should know, there are different things that makes people form their perception, infact the amount of income one earns, the type of family one is born into can make them form diverse perception. It's now **perceptions in turn that influences people's beliefs on things like religion**, style of dressing and even the way they relate to their immediate society.


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The reason why people understands that there's good, bad and the ugly aspect of life is because they formed these perceptions based on what their life experiences and the end lessons of these experiences. Perceptions are never wrong and they're not necessarily statement of facts. One of the reason why **near death experience** (NDE) are not taken for mere fallacy is because it's an unconscious experience that is witnessed by someone who's at the brink of death. So *(NDEs)* are actually one's perceptions of the after life because it's something they experienced howbeit unique to them in all aspects.


One thing is, life presents many realities but this doesn't mean these realities are factual phenomenon. One's reality may actually be a mirage, a hallucination as well as but it's an event that's unique to a person so it's a perception. **Man is unique, domineering and freely existing without one fully dependent on another** and if we weren't we won't have perceptions. Truth is, perceptions are how we view or create our different kind of realities and each and every individual in life is entitled to have perceptions because it helps form personality sometimes.

In conclusion, *man diverse has nomenclature and these further subdivides into differences*. Facts are facts while perceptions are perceptions, these are two different things according to me. While different  opinion of people can be sullied by their perception **we must understand that perceptions could have been same should people experience the same exact life process without any difference whatsoever** needless to say, people can't be proven wrong on their perception because it's formed based on a certain unique reality which they themselves went through. But People can be proven wrong when it comes to statements of facts which is unchangeable no matter the experience one goes through in life.