Whether you choose Grid View or List View you’re looking at the same thing. But you’re regarding it from a different perspective. And while it is often repeated that everything depends upon how you look at things, I am not so certain one is always looking at the same thing or even a different thing. The variety exudes not from the construction or disposition of the ingredients being examined but rather from within ourselves. Altering the linear or proportional dimension of the things we see may indeed look different but the impression upon our mind may be quite unintended or intended but obstructive (like hunting for a trademark in a millefiori).

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When it comes to people we’re similarly inclined to look at them from different perspectives. But I think you’ll agree there are no two of us who will conclude the identical detail about whomever we see.  Even if we’re standing in the same light at the same distance from the same object of our focus, we’ll each see something different. This is so not because of any calculable perspective or dimension of what is being seen; rather because of the person doing the seeing.

So it is how you look at things not how things look at you. Now of course there are a myriad of remonstrances to this seemingly trite philosophy. What after all could be more preposterous than to suggest that the meaning of life emits from within oneself! I will however stand fast and remind you that your perception of anything can change overnight.  You may go to bed convinced of one proposition or another, assured that your model of calculation is both proper and fortuitous, that living as you are or as you wish you were is a satisfactory conclusion of both determination and observation.

But the very next morning you may awaken to a completely different view.  You may dismiss your erstwhile convictions as utter nonsense. You may suddenly perceive that there is an entirely new angle by which to look at things. Certainly you may dissolve into despair; but you are as likely to evaporate into a heady cloud. There is no predicting one’s variable look upon the Universe. Often we dismiss this possibility of amendment by first deciding that by some unspecified mechanism we are inalterable. But we forget that Nature is by essential phenomena transformative and evolving.

Admission of Grid View or List View accomplishes no more than to invigorate one’s own possibility of variation. It is a silent metaphor of the changeability of life. Although its parameters are binary only, I look at that these conditions of operation as an extension of the limitless possibilities, not as confinement. One must however be open to the so-called filters. Getting the best out of life, like distilling any other ingredients, is a matter of application and perseverance.  Certainly there is no suggestion that changing the way one looks at things is as simple as Grid View or List View.