The Act of Seeing

Read the same story, but come to different conclusions about why the characters did what they did under trying circumstances. Who is to say which response captures the mind of another.

Read a story in the newspaper and wonder why someone committed an act of treachery or what inspired someone to act beyond what is expected. We can read the words and make inferences.

We bring our own knapsacks filled with our particular ways of seeing the world. My lens is not your lens. Words and actions refracted through my lens will differ from the lens of someone else -- even if the difference is quite small.

                                    My vision 
                                            Your vision
                                                       My lens                                                            
                                                                 And        
                                                        Your lens                                                                                  

    
                          A more complete story.