What if the way we view the world is not the way it truly is? What if we could understand and adjust the lens, and make decisions from that place of clarity? That's the question at the heart of my latest short blog post
I love this kind of weather, these bright, cool, crisp mornings
They're great for walking and thinking
What they're not so great for is capturing on a phone camera. The light bounces off everything - the glare and reflections stop you from capturing the true picture
It reminds me of my old manual film camera that I probably still have in a box somewhere. I used to have a Polaroid filter you could fit over the lens. It was a bit like magic
Turn it to the right angle, and all the reflections would just disappear. Everything obscuring the image would be gone
So you could take a picture through glass or down into water and discern all the detail of what was beneath
Our minds aren't so different from a camera. We’re taking in so much information every day. So much more than we can possibly process on a conscious level
Our filters - the lenses we wear - dictate how we choose to act on the information we receive
Lenses that allow through some information, and obscure the rest, to avoid overloading our heads with all that could be seen
What if we could understand the lenses through which we view the world?
If we had a Polaroid filter, and could turn the angle of the lens
Just a little
A little more
A little more…
Until, suddenly, so much would become clear
Until, suddenly, we would understand what we had not been seeing
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📸 St Leonards on Sea beach on a clear autumn morning