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This past weekend I took my kids to see their first 3D movie.
I was blown away with how the glasses altered my vision.
Not like I expected though.
I was not overly impressed with the 3D effects in the movie
itself; what really surprised me was what happened when I exited
the theatre.
When I came out of the theatre and removed my 3D glasses,
I experienced the greatest parable of life.
"Life is how we view it."
After wearing glasses where one lens was red and the other was
blue, my eyes had adjusted to the colors.
Now with my naked eyes, out of one eye the world had a blue tint
and out of the other eye the world had a red tint.
I could not believe my eyes, I had never heard of that
phenomenon before. I rubbed my eyes and closed one eye and
alternated them over and over. Everything looked redder, then
everything looked bluer, over and over.
I had enough scientific knowledge and common sense to know the
whole world was not changing colors, timed perfectly to the
instant I shut one eye and opened the other.
This was the most altered my vision had ever been, yet it was
perhaps the clearest I had ever seen the world.
I now saw the argument between the optimist and the pessimist
solved, it depends on which eye you have open.
In your life, do you focus on those who have more than you or
those who are less fortunate than you?
Do you focus on how bad your job is or that you have a job?
Do you focus on the smallness of your closet and house, or do
you see that you have so many clothes you don't have room to
store them?
What eye are you looking out of?
If you want the world to look differently, it may be easier for
you to open the other eye than to paint the world.
~A MountainWings Original~
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