One Minute Moment: Lenses

We all see the world through a certain lens. This lens focuses our gaze to see certain things and miss others. A faithful person sees someone healed as a miracle, an atheist sees it as something we haven't yet been able to explain, or as random chance. People from this generation hear a story of their grandfather taking their old dogs for a "ride" with the dog never returning and see heartlessness, when they probably saw it the same way we see taking our broken computers to be recycled. Our lens colors everything, from what we see as right and wrong, to what brands we use. From the way we view history to who we turn to for advice. No matter what we do, everything we take in is colored by the perspective we have. So how do we see what really was there? We have two options: we can try to remove any effects of our lens, or we can try to use a different perspective and compare what we see. I see both as useful and we should try both when attempting to understand any tough issue. If we do, our vision will clear and we will be far closer to the real truth.

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