Something visible and you’re need to focus on?  You can’t look up, no distractions

Or maybe something invisible you’re trying to find?  This might help.  Here’s a camera which makes the invisible visible.  Except you need to know where to point it and you don’t always know which way to look.

When we’re looking at something, we’re not looking at something else.  No-one can see everything all at once.  Take a walk along your street and see how much is real but you do not “see it,” being on the periphery of your vision.  You’d have to turn towards it in order to see it.

What if we are walking through life and missing a whole load of things which would change the way we live our lives?

There’s always been so much to see; we simply have more ways of seeing everything now, and all of this is delivered through people.

We often need others to see more things – including the things which are right under our noses.  And life just seems to get bigger when we invite people into our lives who don’t see things the way we do.  We’re exploring more and more ways of becoming visible to each other – through online and onsite means: Facebook, Pinterest, Twitter, LinkedIn, Meetup, Tumblr.*

We’re still playing with these but they promise greater seeing; Austin Kleon makes the plea: ‘Don’t show your lunch or your latte; show your work.’

At least show me your work as well as  your latte, because it may just help me to see something that excites me, it may just help me to stop focusing on something that is taking up too much of my attention making me miss something more important.  Sometimes we need to be distracted.  As Seth Godin would want to remind us, the future is connected.

There are at least three ways of seeing:

I can see and understand something more … but I’ll likely forget a lot of this and it won’t shape my life.

I can see something deeply by feeling it … something excites and it becomes part of me.

I can see and feel and see what I must do with it… and then I can show what I have made to you.

To the loving eye, everything is real.

 (*Just today I received a request from someone through change.org, asking me to sign a petition for recognition and commemoration of all those who lost their lives in building the football stadia for this year’s World Cup.  The daughter of one of those killed says nothing was offered at the opening to remember them.  I remember the story vaguely from some time ago of the roof at Sao Paulo’s stadium collapsing, but this brings it all closer to home; you can sign the petition here if you wish.)