My attempt at philosophy..and why i eventually gave it up

A chicken can be looked at by a person as anything ranging from a living thing having a complex nervous system, to an ingredient for soup for his/her cold. Perception is something that can either be the way a person chooses to look at or think of something or just involuntarily understands that something in a particular way.In other words, it is extremely subjective. Perception is determined by a variety of factors that range from society and its norms, individual emotions, the amount of knowledge one posses on a particular subject, the period of time in history one is living in and other things that I cant really think of. Each factor contributes quite significantly to ones perception of things in general.
An example could be made of a car enthusiast who out of sheer passion(and a lot of money), buys himself a nice big Land Rover. His perception of it would probably be a beautiful machine that is capable of giving him immense levels of pleasure and satisfaction( and probably lots of women too) when driven around. But a Green-Peace activist could come along and rip the car’s wind-shield wipers off and let the air out of the tires out of frustration because all he can perceive, or at least chooses to perceive of it would be a waste of precious fuel and a contributor to global warming. It’s beauty and performance would not really interest him. And even if he secretly did like it, he couldn’t let his other green peace buddies know and so he would choose to keep the melting ice-caps higher up his list of priorities. And if a person came across the same car around fifty years from now, taking into consideration the fact that it did not already let the Earth get flooded, it would symbolise a relic of the past. It could still be admired for its beauty but not in the same way it was fifty years ago. It could be compared to the way the world admires Shakespeare’s work today, where one usually tends to look at it as something philosophical and deep with obscure ironical statements that Shakespeare probably did not notice himself. Whereas the audience who watched the plays in Shakespeare’s time only watched it for entertainment’s sake and did not bother to “appreciate” the depth of each character and notice the obscure ironies that were so intricately woven into the plot (written intentionally, or just turned out to be a matter of mere coincidence)
And so, even if a chicken is thought of as nothing but an ingredient for soup by the entire world, it could not be considered as a completely uniform perception since that would only be looking at the surface of things. Each person could in fact have in mind a different way of cooking it and then later a different way of serving it and so on. Only when every living human-being on Earth somehow miraculously posses the same brain patterns or something of the sort… and therefore the same thought process along with exactly the same conditions around him/her with nothing to change his/her way of thinking can there be a uniform perceptions of things. And so the point being…that perception…is.. about beauty lying in the eyes of the beholder or something like that...
And once I realized that all of that related in no way to my life in general and did not even slightly make me look at things in a different way( assuming that’s what philosophy is supposed to make you do)…I gave up on trying to think philosophically..