open your eyes

The red tinted glasses are used as a metaphor to show that our perceptions are restricted to how we are made up as individuals. When the glasses are put on and everything around is red, this limits perception of everything around us and I believe that there are many different perceptions in the world and red is only one form or opinion of the world in the same way we all have different views and opinions. No one is born with red tinted glasses otherwise we would have only one perception and one opinion but I believe that it is up to us to change the glasses to be open to new ideas and perceptions because the colour of the glasses do not change themselves and if we keep one colour of glasses we would be discriminative and opinionated to things we have no idea about. In my opinion the glasses are like some sort of filter and it brings together and is only open to the same beliefs and ideas, which is why we need to change our glasses to be open to everyone and everything.

The experiment shows that when worn the glasses alter opinion and open stereotypes. What we do not realise is that everyone wears these glasses as no one is 100% open to the world and the colour red is reflecting and the other colours are absorbing into nothingness. We have to open ourselves to every pair of coloured glasses because that makes us understand other cultures, relgions beliefs and people. Everyone has their own perceptions and viewpoints and we often think when we make a point, we are right because it is the glasses that we are wearing although if we wore the glasses of the other person we put our point across to we would realise that they have a point to. This put into real life situations show that our opinion can be altered by things we watch or read or even see, and they could be altered more than other people which is why we have these different opinions and obstructions to how the world is really like. However, this doesn’t mean that it is okay to always have these opinions, it is only okay if you accept that the opposite argument has a point because by wearing all different shades of glasses chosing one opinion accepting all other points of an argument is okay, though making a judgment without knowing all sides is not.

The coloured lens could be anything from opinion to emotions and feelings, and whether you wear blue green yellow or red the hue of the colour obstructs your view from the other colours leaving us with such limited vision. Here is an example, If a new girl walks into school and is what one person sees as “not so pretty” they would probably not talk to them because their glasses shun them from reality and the person by making a judgment. However, if a person finds her “gorgeous” automatically everyone wants to know her etc. This is a judgment people make from their perceptions through their coloured glasses but there is more to life than what is on the outside and I believe you only understand that the elder you get. The glasses make up a judgment and we have to ignore the glasses the judgment makes because it is not always for the best and it could be a mistake

In conclusion, I believe that the red tinted glasses shows that we have to open our mind to the world and not look at it through one glass or one colour because in life we have to be open minded. However, I don’t believe that we can take off the glasses but we have to wear the glasses the right way and switch glasses to see different opinions and ideas otherwise you will be a judgmental person because of the one perception you see through the glasses. When people use the phrase open your eyes I dont think they physcially mean OPEN YOUR EYES but they mean to change your glasses and see all the different things around you, DONT stick to one pair and make judgments according to that, open your persona and open yourself to new ideas which makes you a better individual.