What matters is how events are construed (interpreted).

George Kelly's theory, called constructive alternativism, involves the notion that, even though there is only one true reality, it is always experienced from one or another perspective or "alternative construction". Since there are an infinite number of different alternative constructions or perspectives we may take on the world, we are always free to change to a different one if our current one is not doing such a good job helping us adapt or get what we want.