It is not what you look at that matters but what you see Ralph Wald Emerson once said “There is an optical illusion about every person we meet. ” Lot depends in the way we perceive what we observe or see. Illusion is always mysterious and if we question ourselves even a little, the line between illusion and reality begins to fade. Do you only look at the negative way your partner or friend acts or dresses? Can’t you see the positive or do you look right past it?

When your subordinate finishes a task, is it what you don’t like that you look at? Can’t you look close enough to see a good effort or nice results?? Doesn’t your mother sometimes point out to you something that you have looked at repeatedly but not seen?? Yes. Seeing something is entirely different than merely looking at it. Different people often have different feelings or paint a different picture for different things in life. Like if we take a little example of rain.

On one hand, a working woman who travels daily by bus can see the chaos created by rainfall, halting the traffic for hours due to water logging, making her reach her office late in the morning , thus leaving her irritated for the whole day. Other might feel cold in such a windy weather and blame the stupid rain for getting him/her the common cold. At the same time, a 17 yr old can see the rainbow in the sky, see the bright colors of the grass and leaves, feel fresh air with smell of the rain and return home delighted with school uniform drenched in rain.

Thus, we all might look at the same thing, but each person might take away or see” different things, for whatever reasons. It is easy to look at anything but the important thing is to be able to see beyond external appearance. We can look at something with our eyes but can really ‘see’ or get to know it only through inner experience. Like, a relationship can be easily broken up because of some misunderstandings but if the person knew each other really well and see beyond Just mere looking at the scene like “what actually prompted other person to act in such a ay that misunderstanding cropped up in the first place? Then the relationship could be mended and grown. It all depends on how much effort do we really take to understand the situation and then get involved to find its meaning. Not observing everything is human. Some people take out positive out of any situation but some tend to notice only negative things. We probably cannot notice every aspect or detail but the author is trying to say that observing things is an important thing. Illusion Essay By Shipyard’s