shadow.

a friend of mine writes we don't see things as they are. we see things as we are. meaning, as i see it, that our vision is always subjective, and that what we are gives meaning to the things we see - in other words, to the things we experience. sometimes that leads to an old mistake: sometimes we stop seeing things as we are, but as we wanted them to be. and we try to shape them accordingly, we try to mold them to our idea of perfection, we try to bind them to our will. but even though we see things as we are, things are what they are. trying to bind and shape them will inevitably lead to failure. why? because either we try to shape a rock with our bare hands and fail, or we succeed and reshape it - only to realize that, once reshaped, that rock is not that rock anymore. it is an entirely different thing. it is no longer what it was, or what we felt it was. it is just another shadow that follow us blindly under the light, an empty shell that we filled with our own image.