If you focus your vision on something small then the world becomes so much larger. There is a clarity that arises: the subject or object moves to the foreground, close-up. The toy figure is life-size, larger than life even, so that the background is an expanded universe. The thing in focus is then all of the world and it changes in different light.
Such a pure gaze creates purity in the thing gazed upon.
Why do we forget sometimes that’s it’s as simple as a state of mind?
Maybe to be an adult is to have a headache; maybe to be a child is to shrink-wrap our mind around one sound at a time and forget the noise.
As a Christian, I believe I’m to be preaerpd to meet my Maker at any moment, not that I’m a pessimist. As a Minister of the Gospel, in your personal beliefs, do you believe that the end of the world is coming in 2012 and that we Christians should prepare for the true ‘end’ rather than be seeking places to “ride out the storm” as lots of other folks seem to be doing? The consensus seems to be that the end of the world, ‘as we know it’ is coming, but we just need to survive it and adjust. Do you believe we’re going to have any options?
It was so much easier to have that sort of pure thinking as a child. I wish I could have retained this throughout the years, because it is difficult to shut out all the noise that clutters the adult mind. Spot on with this post.
So true, Amberr. Picasso said that every child is an artist. I wonder how and when people lose their imagination. Maybe it just takes practice to get it back or to keep it. Thanks for commenting, I appreciate it!
Cool! That’s a clever way of looikng at it!
I like this…It makes me think of when i was little, maybe 4, and my great grandpa was under the kitchen table on his hands an knees trying to catch me. The table at the time seemed huge. He died a week later. But the point is, when i went back to that house i was 12 and the table looked really small, but i had a clear vivid memory of what that room looked like to me before. My perception changed.
It’s good to re-visit things as it may appear different when you’re older.
Thanks for sharing, Malana. I’m glad you have that memory under the table, at least. Thanks again!
What a neat article. I had no inkilng.