I did not miss sighting the Cormorant and a greater Coucal in our garden yesterday. They by their largeness and presence in prominent spots caught my attention.
It was following that I turned my attention to the rose bushes in front of me. It was when I downloaded the photos, I noticed the web of a spider in two rose bushes above, with the spider not in sight.
This was a lesson in advanced self education!
There is a conditioning effect by habit, which brings to visual attention that which we are familiar with and are looking for! I look for birds and see them!
I do not usually look for spider or the web. So I miss seeing them.
I took time to view the above rose flowers under different editing conditions to explore if I could find any trace of web in any of the above flowers. But I could not!
I found a trace of a web strand at the five 'O clock position in the flower below, which I copied under two editing stages to hight light the strand of the web, but could not succeed enough, except for a faint trace of it in the five to eleven 'O clock positions, at the bottom of the flower.
This revised my thinking and challenged the authenticity of the first impressions I carry with me!
This brought an awareness to dwell on !
I missed seeing the strand of the web in both instances, in the third and the fourth photos as well as in the last two photos. Therefore I missed seeing the spider which might have been underneath the flowers or leaves.
I tend to see what I look for ! Just because I do not think about some other sights, it does not mean that they do not exist, but miss them as 'what the mind does not think about is not looked for'!
I realise that education of the mind to go beyond the regular impressions or familiar habits is what is needed to stay objective and open!
That brought a truth to reckon with- my impressions would need revisions!
If just a few photos told me this story of some missed observations, how much more I miss in real life because I am not comprehensive in seeing, listening or perceiving!
This is the foundation about the revision of life.
Because we are used to overlook or under view, we live with reduced or restricted awareness of truth !
Let me make a confession!
The two photos of cashew nuts above, each with three, one spread out and the other in a cluster in appeared differently. What was in a cluster was three and the other was two and one! But the reality was that each photo had three cashew nuts.
This bias to interpret in one way is a perception bias!
I realised this even more intensely when I reviewed the photos taken during the week. When I looked at them to search for anything more than what I took the phots for, I was surprised to see somethings which I did not observe earlier while editing !
I realise how facts would receive a new colour of depth, when seeing, hearing, and perceiving become comprehensive!
M.C.Mathew(text and photo)
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