#39 Perspective - Musa Muhaiyaddeen

Among young people, videos games is something that a lot of them do. And there are different types of video games. But one of the consistent genres is the war game where you are the shooter, and your perspective in this game is essentially looking through the barrel of a gun or rather over the sight of a gun. And you keep going through rooms with this perspective. So, you’re constantly seeing everything as if you’re looking through a scope, and it’s a wide scope so you see quite a bit. But that’s you’re perspective, and then when you come upon things, you react to them. Now, when I saw this perspective, I found it very interesting because you had a full scope of what was in front of you, but of course, you didn’t see yourself. And actually you were put into a really narrow focus of the perspective that the sight of the gun had.

However, we walk around that way when we look at the world. Our perspective comes from the scope that is our eyes. We see the entire world in front of us as we walk around, and the peripheral view of our perspective is a little bit wider than a gun scope. But essentially, that’s the kind of perspective that we have. Everything is in our sights except us. We see everything outside of us. We don’t see us. And it’s interesting because in our reaction to ourself, we don’t react to our visual presence because we’re not seeing our visual presence. We’re reacting to ourself through whatever’s inside our head and the entire amalgam of emotions that we carry that watches this perspective in front of us. So, it should be very evident that we see everybody very differently than we see ourself. And it’s been set up that way.

We see everybody entirely differently than we see ourself. Whenever we look at somebody, we look at their face. We never look at our face unless we’re looking in a mirror or through pictures, etc. The point is in our normal conversations, we’re looking at somebody. They’re looking at us. But none of us is looking at ourself. This is part of what causes this major disconnect between ourself and everybody else.