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Perspective: The Color In Which We See The World

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Perspective: The Color In Which We See The World

First, imagine yourself alone in a treeless pasture at the pinnacle of spring. In this pasture, you finally decide to sit down in order to admire the serenity of the pasture. As you are sitting down, a leaf, which is derived from the pinnacle of springtime, lands on your lap. Curious, you pick up the leaf, and take a good, hard, and long look at it. After awhile, with your own eyes, you SEE that this leaf is a rich green. There is no denying that the leaf is green, no matter how you see it.

Now imagine that you have a physicist friend, who sees you from afar. Since you are taking a good, long, and hard look at the leaf, your friend becomes curious, and decides to walk over. As this friend approaches you, he sees that you are holding a leaf from the pinnacle of spring. He says, “This leaf contains very little GREEN.”

Imagine you stand there puzzled. You look at your friend, containing the notion that your friend is crazy. Of course you bare in mind that your friend is a physicist. As a result, he looks at the world from a physicist's point of view. However, you get too emotional over this arbitrary topic, and you lose your calm because what your friend said absolutely contradicted what you experienced with your own eyes. So what is the result? Words start spewing out of your mouth uncontrollably, and you say,” You are crazy! This leaf is extremely green! Can’t you see it?”

Your imagine your friend replying, “According to physics, this leaf reflects green color into our eyes. However, it does not CONTAIN a lot of green color, since all of it is reflected into your eyes. Therefore, the color of the leaf contains very little green.”

Now pause.

In regards to the character in which you imagined yourself as, you viewed the leaf as very green, since you saw, with your own eyes, the extremely rich-green color. On the other hand, the physicist friend says that the leaf is NOT very green, because your friend sees from a physicist's non-practical view of life. As a result, to your friend, the leaf itself CONTAINS very little green from having all the green reflected into eyes.

Of course, there are also the people who believe that both are right, because both laid out their arguments in a logical and understandable manner. And of course, there are also people who believe that these perspectives are both wrong, since they believe that none of their statements and arguments are sensible and reasonable.

So who’s correct? Who’s incorrect? For some of you, you may say that physicist is correct, since the physicist point-of-view is more accurate from being scientifically proven. Others may say that “the character you imagined yourself as” is correct, since green is the color that naturally emits into the eyes.

But really, nobody here is right or wrong, because correctness is not applicable in this situation.

Why? Because, perspective is really just the “color” in which we see the world. How we see the color ultimately depends on us.

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