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The Lens of Possibility

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Written by Karen D. Swim

I have one green eye and one brown eye. The green eye sees truth, but the brown eye sees much, much more. The green eye sees only what is there but the brown eye casts a wider lens to what is possible. The green eye reflects the images of my world as they appear but the brown sees the intricate and sometimes magical detail that comprises the whole.

The first two sentences of the above paragraph were from a writing exercise in the book, Writing Magic: Creating Stories that Fly by Gail Carson Levine. From the list of writing prompts, this one caught my attention as it reveals the dichotomy of our lives. We have the power to imagine while remaining grounded in reality. We see what is there but believe in what seems impossible.

Our eyes may be the same color but our minds allow our vision to shift. Our lens can open wide and broaden our perspective. Just as easily, we can narrow our field of vision and focus on a single infinitesimal detail.

What do your eyes see today – what is there or what is possible?

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  1. Karen, beautiful metaphor. We are gifted with the possibility to see everything surrounding us and everything beyond at the same time. One reality-bound eye and one dreamy eye. I think the key is to trust both and never let one overpower the other one. Because dreaming and believing in your dreams is healthy, but believing in something that has nothing to do with reality is not always the best approach. And I am not referring to afterlife or unseen things here. I’m talking about believing you are going to be a famous painter when you can’t draw a tree in its most basic form 🙂

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  2. Very interesting! This came on an appropriate day for me, a day when what is there and also realistic (to me) is foremost in my mind, and actually stressful. I can’t see past it to let my lens of possibilities widen.

    Thanks for the provocation!

  3. We do see things thru our individual filters. Filters influenced by our life experience, mood or the goggles of fear that are pushed on us each morning when we watch the news. May we learn to open our eyes wide and focus without the filters to see what is true.

  4. At first I thought you really DID have one green eye and one brown eye, but then I thought, “no wait, I’ve seen her picture, her eyes are both brown!” and then I realized it’s this sort of metaphor thing and then I was all, “oh, cool!”

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