Asia Khan BPY2-014 A person creates their own reality It is understood that human beings construct their own reality shaped by their experience, socio-cultural beliefs and their perceptions. Social reality deals with how we make sense of the world and our social environment. It not only affects us but also our perception and opinions of others. In terms of creating one's social reality, we understand people in a certain way, we look at ourselves and believe ourselves to be a certain way. When late in the mornings due to oversleeping, we attribute the reason of us being late to the little traffic we faced on our way. Whereas, when someone else is late we usually go with dispositional attribution, attributing their failure to be punctual to personal factors e.g having overslept or carelessness. Thus we do construct our own reality where we are generally defensive towards ourselves using situational attribution to our failures and dispositional/internal attribution to our success. This goes the other way around when we are perceiving others. We have created our reality regarding the situation in order to justify our failure or take pride in our achievements. When a group of people agree on something existing, it becomes a reality. A group of people in a University decorated the place and now see it as a party place. The place is still an educational institute, but because of the shared agreement and perception, they have constructed their social reality of the place being a partying spot. Beauty standards is also a concept of social reality. Different people perceive one individual as being beautiful, ugly, average, fat, thin etc. One individual is perceived differently by different people thus strengthening the view of people constructing their own social reality. Nevertheless, it can also be said that people don't construct their reality. People do not have total control over what goes on. A person getting into an accident has not constructed this reality for themselves rather its the natural and objective reality bound to happen no matter that person's perception. However, we do participate in creating our reality in terms of how we perceive or judge the situation after or while it is occuring. If I were to be rejected by someone, I, myself have not created this reality rather its an uncontrollable reality. How I perceive the situation then, is me participating in constructing my own reality. I might conclude that I had flaws so I was rejected or maybe that it just was not a match therefore I construct my reality in terms of how I want to relate to the situation. Hence, we do construct our reality of how we perceive things relating to ourselves and others but not meaning that we are responsible for what happens rather it's only how each individual according to their constructed reality is responsive to what happens. References Taylor, K. (2010, July 29). Social https://www.philosophytalk.org/blog/social-reality Reality. Retrieved March 11, 2019, from Asia Khan BPY2-014 Amodeo, J. (2014, December 02). Do We Create Our Own Reality? Retrieved March 11, 2019, from https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/intimacy-path-toward-spirituality/201412/do-we-create-ourown-reality
