What does one perceive?

What does one perceive constantly? This question is of importance, to everyone, because our perceptions make us happy or sad. To put it starkly, we have been perceiving everything as we have been perceiving everything else. If someone tells you that you have changed in your outlook, can you convince yourself, that you have changed? All your perceptions can be identified by you, as having been experienced before. If you perceive a perception felt by you, for example, happiness, you know what happiness is. If you perceive unhappiness, you know what unhappiness is, too. If someone remarks that you have changed, what has perhaps changed, is either how you perceive perceptions, or how you react to them, or perhaps, it is a case of both. I do not believe, that perceptions matter, because they are not a constant, after any given point of time. Even if one feels that one's perception is steady, what is one comparing that steadiness, to? If your perception is steady, if you tell yourself, that your perception is steady, then, that is a change in perception. Do you tell yourself, that you are happy, when you feel happy? Then how do you accept your happiness? In this instance, you are busy telling yourself, that you are happy, when you are happy. Do you perceive sameness, when you perform actions? You may not identify the actions that you perform, as identical. But are they basically the same. When you try to differentiate between drinking water, and eating food, you may encounter frustration. Why am I telling myself to differentiate between eating and drinking, you may ask. When we try to identify minutely, what are we trying to identify? What we try to identify minutely, does it exist in isolation? In what context, does it exist in isolation, if it does? How does the isolation matter? I will now point out, what I feel is important. Is it not better, to look at perception not minutely, but to perceive generally? If one is looking at a colourful painting, does one identify all the colours in the painting, all the lines, and so on, if one is not so inclined? Does one get lost in the individual colours, of the painting, and not regard the painting? One may not like an individual colour in isolation, but may like the colour, as a part of the painting. So, how important is our perception, when we perceive? As long as the perception lasts? Is it definite, how long a perception lasts? In my opinion, perception is ever changing, to the minutest degree, to which time may ever be divided. If this be the case, the question to be asked is, how is one perception different from another? How is it possible to identify, that one perception can be different from another, when perceptions never cease to change? Is it the case, that change and changelessness, is the same state, or in other words, that change and changelessness, cannot be differentiated, because they are one and the same? What is easier to accept, the concept of change, or the concept of changelessness? How does one accept what does not appear to be change, and what does appear to be change, at different times? Does the answer to the question have any significance to our lives? This question has to be answered, by ourselves, to ourselves.