One Apple A Day #414
Have you ever heard of a product called VantaBlack? It's a paint developed in the United Kingdom, and it is one of the darkest substances known. It can absorb up to 99.6% of the light. If you search for it on youtube, you'll find a video in which the creators show a mask painted with this material. If you look at the object from the front, you just see a flat black surface, like a hole in the space. The mask has no shape, no depth, no form. Only when the camera moves to the side, you can see that the object is not flat. This is because our eyes use lights and shadows to understand the shape of things.
That video reminds me of the importance of having different perspectives. Sometimes, we get stuck into one view, and we become blind to the richness of what we are looking at. People, situations, problems. To be able to perceive their depth and their substance, we need to embrace different perspectives. We can shift the lights or move to a new point of view. Only seeking multiple perspectives, we can see the wholeness in everything and everyone.