I want to talk to you about the world and how we see it.
Imagine you are wearing blue lenses permanently attached over your eyes, fastened there right after birth. You have had these blue lenses over your eyes 24/7, every day of your life. Now ponder this: By what color do you see the world? Blue?
No.
How do you understand what blue is if it is the only color that you see? There are no other colors to differentiate the blue from other colors of the light spectrum, so though blue is all that you see, you do not see it as blue. You see it as reality; the only color you’ve ever seen, the only reality you’ve ever known.
People may tell you, or you’ve read it yourself, that grass is green, snow is white, and bananas are yellow. But to you, everything is blue. But not blue, "reality". It is too difficult to see past those lenses, to see the world as it really is. Not just the world outside, but also the world inside as well; the world of perception that is within you.
Then one day, somehow, the lenses are removed, and you see for the first time the colors of the world, and the world as it really is, undistorted by the hindrance of the blue lenses.
But yet for some people, for many people, for most people, taking off the blue lenses is not only difficult, but near impossible to even imagine. If only we could see the world in all of its colors, and enjoy a life with such color and beauty rather than through the blues.
We need to experience life through the entire color spectrum of unrestrained perception.
We need a new reality.
(BTW, please don't make any sort of connection between this blog topic and the fact that I often use blue font for my blogs. I just like the color blue.)
Well, yeah, it's hard to get rid of something that's always been part of you. I'm trying to do that but there's always times when I fall back to the start. At the moment I see "all the colors" but I can never really know when the "blue" will make a comeback.
ReplyDeleteI must say that this text of yours is brilliant! It's so much more than it seems and it makes the reader truly wonder and ponder about things. Thank you for sharing your text - good luck with your future work!
Mia, I find myself recalling the end of Return of the Jedi, when Darth wanted to take his helmet and mask off. He told his son "Just for once, I want to see you with my own eyes." What a difference that had to be, seeing the world for 20 years with his mind rooted in the Dark Side, then to come back to the Good Side and see with his own eyes not shrouded in evil.
ReplyDeleteNot comparing you or I to the evil Darth Vader, but by analogy it is an incredible transformation when we finally take the helmet off. Good luck to you. I wish upon you light and many colors!