While watching these lilies, I realised that one cannot have a full view of each flower by looking at them from one site. One has to move around to see each flower as they face different directions.
This raised a question in my thoughts: how often I form an impression about a person or an event without an all round view of the situation!
The flowers make their self disclosure. It is for the beholder to receive and feel refreshed. But we need to move around the plant to have a good view of each flower.
It is the one sided view which gives us an incomplete picture of a situation or a thought or an idea or a person.
I felt encouraged by this insight !
To be patient and observant before forming an impression!
Anna and I spend most of our time writing during the day. What we come across is how people whom we have known over the years have lived their lives pursuing a call, different from what we knew of them in their earlier years! The goodness resident in them needed time to become manifest. Life is always evolving and changing!
It is a learning experience to be open to know people as they are becoming! This calls for revising our impressions by being patient to know more about a person and feel touched by their acts of kindness!
This is a journey from seeing to knowing! To know and to be known is the purpose of any mutual relationship!
M.C.Mathew(text and photo)
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