Earlier in this week I came across this photo as I was selecting “Eye (I) Catchers” for one of seven promised mailings as part of one of the “tools” offered in my new Kindle book “Writing for Self-Discovery: Creating Breakthroughs” on Amazon. You can request the “7 Eye (I) Catchers” by clicking or tapping on Expand Vision.
THE PHOTO AND STORY:
To me the “face” was scowling/growling. I set up the email and then went onto a writing class. I came back and looked at the photo and I could no longer see the scowling. All I could see was sadness.
I realized that I was bringing to my external vision the disappointment on something I had missed in class. One of the class assignments was to list things about ourselves that are unique.
Knowing one of the things unique about me IS the way I see things and help other people to see from new perspectives also. So I wrote, strictly free-flow as we write about in “Writing for Self-Discovery: Creating Breakthroughs”
The Onion Speaks:
It’s really funny,
The stories people make up…
Especially Sheila.
She included me as one of the Eye (I) Catchers
In a follow-up email…
one of those Auto Responder things.
I know she had labeled me as a growling face.
That’s what/how I’d been appearing to her for
I don’t know how long.
I don’t remember what she first thought
when her eye caught my image as she was cutting
parts of my external being to get to my core.
She stopped what she was doing to get
her camera… before her iPhone… so it was
a much bigger deal than now.
I should have been flattered,
I got to be preserved no matter
what happened to me after.
But how would you like to be remembered
As a growling personality???
She even wrote tonight.
In that auto responder thing…
“As I was cutting a red onion,
I noticed a growling face.
I might have used it to chastise someone
and I like to think I avoid such behaviors.”
Somewhat arrogant, wouldn’t you agree?
After the writing class here she came back
To reread and edit the email… completely
skipped over the growling part.
I went out… at least to the first group
waiting for Eye (I) Catchers in AR3
and then she looked at me again.
Suddenly all she could see was disappointment…
Disappointment and sadness…
She had missed hearing some directions that
might or might not have been given.
It’s so funny… well not laughing funny…
I’m looking at her looking at me…
She’s keeps shaking her head…
She simply can’t find “growling” in me
any more… All she can see is “sadness.”
Interestingly, we are both big enough,
grown up enough, not to dwell in any of
these “meanings”
Rather we’re content in our “Uniqueness”
(I think that question was asked here…
“Write about your uniqueness”)
Our ability to open people up to seeing
Things in new ways…
Noticing what shifts in perspective can do…
Also becoming more aware of the stories
we tell ourselves in the first place.
Now the fun comes in hearing/learning
what other people see.
How many other interpretations will there be
as to whom I might be in this world.
Can’t wait to hear/read…
What do you see ?
Do I remind you of anything in your life?
Pretty amazing what’s possible,
Wouldn’t you agree?
Final note… Sheila in attempting her
usual “need to get it right” went back to
check… to see how she had labeled the
“jay-peg” of me.
All it said was “mood”…
Then she went further and found the
Picture to Ponder issue in which she wrote about me.
We found she showed photos of me
in 3 different positions!!
I became a totally different person in each…
So many possibilities and learnings came
from her experiences with me in that issue.
Now we are BOTH EXCITED… We’ll be
making a comeback… be published again
in Treasure Your Life Now…
I have so much I offer…
If you can’t wait to see what she’ll say next
You can see what we said 4 plus years ago
on Onion – Shifting Perspectives.
But WAIT.. First tell us PLEASE who you’ve
seen me to be… Have I triggered anything
for you in your life?
Please let me know in the comments below.”
Again, You can request the “7 Eye (I) Catchers” by clicking or tapping on Expand Vision.