Happy Dogs Find A Way Around The Wall

Happened upon an interview with Roger Waters on the radio (you remember radios, right?).   Roger Waters, for you of the unenlightened music scene, chummed up with another rock guru named Syd Barrett and started a small English band called Pink Floyd.   They blew out the '70's and '80's, with things like "The Wall" and "Dark Side of the Moon", and then like so many others disintegrated into stife and conflict and litigation. 
Anyway, during the interview Waters was asked why his writing and music was so dark and depressive.   Waters responded that he only writes what he sees.   He went out of his way to point out his positive and happy demeanor, and then spoke about artists only painting what they see and the things he saw weren't real positive in those days.   Those of us who can remember the '70s would agree.  Those were dark times. 
But, Water's raises an Interesting thought... we are what we see, our perception is our reality, we are pack animals influenced by our environment.  When we're puppies we see life presenting itself to us as it is.  Then our parents, our teachers, our media, our culture, "teach" us how to see the world in the "right" way.  We are given labels for things in our world, we are given the right language to describe beings and events, and eventually we can't read the world in any other language or hear it saying anything else then what has been written on the walls of our minds. 
Too often happiness comes by breaking that spell and forcing ourselves to listen to the world in new ways, new views, and new languages, and let the world speak to us and write new meanings in our existence. 
Thanks Roger, it's never too late to tear down the walls and raise your legs on the ones that won't come down.