What do you see?

We all have at some point in our life, tossed a coin to make a decision and observed the end result, heads or tails. But how many of us paid attention to the flight? The struggle of one side of the coin with the another....We often see through our eyes ignoring the less prominent aspect, merely realizing the presence and importance of the flip side.

Pick up a pencil and a paper, and draw a circle. What do you see? A circle or a line chasing itself? The tiny space enclosed within the boundary or the infinite space the boundary couldn't contain. Consider the classic example: Given a glass half full of water what do you see? You look at it from a brighter perspective and a broader horizon, to say that it is half full...or from a negative point of view to say that it is half empty. You look it from a deeper perspective and ask yourself what's the difference, or be totally ridiculed and ask how should that make a difference to you? Take another drawing exercise. Plot r(θ)=2sin4(θ). What do you see? Just another polar curve looking like a flower, or a rose instead, if you colour it? "Simple". What do you see? Is it as simple as it looks or you see as (S)+i(mple) to realize that though it is simple, it has a'mple' of ingrained complexity! (Recall: Complex numbers = a+ib)

You see sand castles on the shoreline, or footsteps in the sand. What do you see? You ask yourself who made these or you ask yourself how long will it be before they are gone? Huge walls. What do you see? The impenetrable boundaries or the reason for their existence. What is it they are safeguarding? Take a glass bowl, fill it with water, put some weeds and buy a goldfish to keep in the bowl. What do you see? You look at the setup and admire yourself for creating an aquarium and feel happy, or feel the pain of lonely life you chose for the fish, away from other fishes, away from its natural habitat?

Sometimes life puts you in situations you might need to think differently and see both sides of the coin. What to choose and what not to choose, what to do and what not to do, what is right and what is wrong, depends on only one thing....What do you see...


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