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Wednesday, May 26, 2010

It seems that all I ever take notice these days is the sky.
It's like when I don't know what I want to think about,
or I'm loss in thought,
I just look up,
and there's the sky for me to ponder.

..And I think I'm over doing it with the analogies.

Anyway,
have you ever noticed the sky,
when it's sort of gray in colour
When it looks like it's going to rain,
yet it looks like it just rained?

The sky,
is like the perspective of someone on something.
Though the sky we see ends at the horizon,
the sky itself knows no boundaries.
In a way,
the possibilities of the many different perspectives people have,
no matter how warp it can get, is endless.
Yet, there's always that limit,
to how much a person's perspective can expand or change.

Keeping that in mind,
that's when I realized that most of the times,
our perspectives tend to be selective.
Most of the times,
we choose what we want to see,
even though everything's right in front of us.

Take the gray sky for example.
When we're feeling down,
we look at the sky and think it's going to rain.
When we're in high spirits,
we look at the sky and think that the rain's just passed.

For a pessimist, you can be pretty optimistic.
For an optimist, you can be pretty pessimistic.

Perhaps I'm generalizing in terms of what people may think,
but I guess it's pretty much a known concept.
Remember The half-filled/half-empty glass?

Then, there are extreme cases.
Where we are so confident that we're taking things in the correct perspective.
We may fail to realize our perspectives aren't the only things that exist;
We may fail to realize the sky isn't the only indication for a thunderstorm.
When the floor around you is dry,
When a gale sweeps right through you,
and when thunder assails you from all quarters,
you know that it definitely IS going to rain.
Would that dampen your perspective/thought?


..Then you stand there looking up,
continuing to think that the rain's just passed,
and the suns going to come out from hiding.

Rain pours down,
and you're all wet.
Sigh.

Jonas.