Perspective is sight. You can only see what you are looking at. Everything else is out of focus. The problem with this understanding, and application is to change your focus you lose perspective. Leading to a closed, one sided, or shifting perspective. Both make the being a passenger on a ride, thrown into corners with no ability to change direction.
Shifting perspective. Lost perspective. Like the words to describe it, perspective is moving; a journey and must be thought of as such. More than one image, it is the journey. Perspective is work. Close your eyes can you see your bedroom. Do you see it as a whole or in pieces? The bed, the dresser, the pile of clothes….. Perspective is sight. But more than the sum of what’s in front of you. Focus and see it as a whole or risk losing it.
I’m up in the woods
I’m down on my mind
I’m building a still
to slow down the time.
~Bon Iver
