On we are what we see

and we see what we are

Lately, eyes have been on my mind.

“We see the world not as it is, but as we are” wrote Anaïs Nin. There are a few threads of insight that can be pulled from this statement. 

For one, it suggests that different people, with different life experiences, will see the same thing differently. The Catcher in the Rye is just some random book to some people, but…