Not that illusive after all...

Look at the picture, what does it says?

Stand a few feet away and look again, what does it say now?

I was looking through at some optical illusions on the Web and came across this that I particularly liked. Not because the statements are provoking as in humans complain that people are too close when they are close to them, but then feel that people are too far away when they keep their distance. But it describes the fact that when we are close to someone, or something or a situation, we focus on the details. We often cannot or do not see the things behind it, the colors and shades that make up the picture. To us, it's just the background, not very important. But take a few steps back, we begin to see the bigger picture. Suddenly we can no longer see the details (the lines), and the background (the colors and shades) becomes the only thing we can see, and lo and behold, the picture is totally different than what we thought we were looking at when focusing on the details, the tiny-whiny bits. Once in a while, we should learn to take a few steps back to see the big picture and let all the tiny-whiny troubles of our live melt away.

On another note, I've watch two great movies recently that touched on optical illusions, namely Inception and Temple Grandin  (an awesome and touching show that everybody should watch), now here's a picture to tease your mind.

Is the building facing inward or outward?