The Red Tinted Glasses

'The Red Tinted Glasses' is a metaphor Albert Knox used to refer to the fact that everything that we perceive may be biased. Its literal meaning is glasses with red coloured lens, which filters out every other colour there is so when we wear them, everything we see is in red. In other words, our perception is always limited and what we see may not be always correct. However, most of us would choose to believe on what we can perceive, rather than something that does not even exist to be more satisfied with life. Through life we will come across many experiences that builds onto our red tinted glass that means that there’ll be more colours in our lives than red but red was always the base colour to everything. Unless we have the courage to put down the glasses, we would never be able to put ourselves fully onto another's perspective since that we are always more aware to what we believe is right and wrong, we only perceive what we wish to see.Relating it to everyday life, in a cultural perspective. For example, if you were born as a Chinese, then Chinese is the colour 'red' of your tinted glasses and if you were born as western, it will be the colour of your tinted glasses. It won't be easy to mix the two colours together which also means that it won't be easy either for Chinese to adapt the western culture (vice versa) unless we ignore our cultural differences. In other words, unless we choose to put down our glasses, we won't be able to adapt different culturesIn the end, the colours of our glasses will be different. We may have many patches of different colours, the contrast and tone of the glasses will change. However, in order to be satisfied with life and in order to live happier, it is better to believe our own perception. Of course, it is always our free choice on whether or not we want to put down the glasses to see more and what's real of the world around us.