Perspective

I recently came across a friend's project where she and her husband had taken similar photographs, but at varying locations. The similarities are striking and yet at the same time, so are the differences. You can see the startling difference in the locale and can tell whether the architecture or the location is Eastern or Western. It got me thinking, if the world were just a mirror reflection of itself, wouldn't that be entirely neat!

But I digress, the project was pretty amazing and it made me think of the perspectives one can have. The same thing can be seen from different pairs of eyes and perceived to be something altogether different. Maybe its about time we actually got ourselves attuned to looking at things from another's point of view. "You never really know a man until you understand things from his point of view, until you climb into his skin and walk around in it", how right Harper Lee was. Just think of all the wars we could avoid if we just got to understand things from another person's point of view, his/her perspective. Heck, on a micro level, think of all the stupid fights we could avoid as people. If we took time out of our lives to look at things through a fresh pair of eyes, would things seem better or worse?

Maybe I'm just being a bit too optimistic and naive to imagine that looking at the same thing differently would always be helpful and would be the best thing to do. I'm just wondering if we don't do it because we're too lazy to think of it from a different perspective or we just don't care!