there are have been countless songs and poems and ballads and stories and love notes written to eyes. the ever present window to one's soul, another person's escape, a wide expanse in which to get lost in. we choose to describe how deep eyes can be, all the while forgetting how truly limiting they are to each of us.i don't mean that the sense of sight is what limits us, but the fact that we all only see the world through one set of eyes. our own. and no one else's.
the very thing that is one of man's greatest attributes has contributed many times as his greatest downfall: the loss of perspective. or maybe the idea of never having it at all. we are so focused on the world as we see it from behind our own eyes that we forget the almost 7 billion other sets of eyes who are peering back at us. and majority of those eyes are one's that we will never see in our lifetimes.
i never realized this issue until i started taking a class called perception. it has actually been proven that our minds will concoct the world into a form that we can recognize for our own well-being and comfort. that our minds have the power to change reality into something that we like a little better. granted, this doesn't mean that our minds will tell us it's still night when it's time to get up in the morning, but the effects are there in the small things that surround us.
if our own minds can change things, what is reality? is it the world as i see it, or the world as the person right next to me sees it? or the person next to him? next to her? next to them? it's not just that we take the gift of vision for granted, but we seem to also abuse it at times. along with sight, we have been given the power of understanding. it's up to us to remember that one does not go without the other.
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