History

It depends on what you are looking for.









My thought with these two images is that you can focus on different areas, which change your experience. On the left, you can focus on the skeleton, or the body in orange. On the right you can focus on the narrow viewpoint available between the brick walls of the fire escape, or on the rooftop, tree, and building, visible through the opening. I think that History, whether personal or shared, is like this. By adjusting your viewpoint, the size of your viewfinder or the type of vision you use (x-ray, etc) the whole scene changes. Of course, Quantum physics tells us that just by looking at something we change it. But didn't literature and history already show us that? Sometimes, shifting perspective is amusing, and other times life changing. Trying to imagine another viewpoint is worth doing...if nothing else, it helps to prevent dementia.