Thursday, February 11, 2010
.:. Point of view .:.
This idea came up when i "malu"ed myself infront of my class last friday.
Was leaving the General Office, walking through the concurse and i conveniently missed my class who were qeueing up right infront of me with their science teacher. Then just as i was walking past em, i heard someone call out "Mr Ho!". I turned around, saw the science teacher staring at me, tot i heard wrongly and turned back. Then i heard it again, this time accompanied by familiar laughter, so i turned my head once more, lowered my angle abit and saw the kids. HAHA dam malu la!!! I jus waved bye and siamed liao.
I guessed tat happens because i was too accustomed to look straight from my point of view, to see adults eye-to-eye, that i have to read adjust myself to actually look lower than usual to see those innocent (when they are not mis-behaving) kids. As we all slowly grow up, accompanied by people of our age, we tend to jus look straight in our field of vision, to focus on those whom we spend majority of our time with. So while sitting in class doing observation, i actually came up with how our PoV( Point of View) actually changes as a persons grows, and i tink the example is very apt.
A kid's point of view is mainly focused on his desk. Right infront of him would be the books sprawled out, a pen lying on it hoping for the work to complete itself. Lying around the books would be the little knick-knacks, like small toys, pens with ruler stuck across it (if u get what i mean) and like a box of country erasers (my pri sch time toy). Such are the distractions that are found in the child's world. Kids of a higher education level would most probably have different distractions. The mp3 lying on the table, music seeping out through the ear phones, the handphone propped nicely standing directly infront of the kid in order to not miss any sms, or even the "te deng" sounds that comes when someone initiates a msn convo.
Then when a kid grows up into a teenager/to-be adult, his PoV widens. It extends to his whole room, the place he tinks its his personal paradise. The bedsheets left lying crumpled from the morning madness, the sweaty uniform hung on the cupboard knob if not on the person, posters of movies or favourite rock bands covering the walls. The more talented ones will have guitar lying by the wall in some corner, with books stacked up on the floor. He/she will stay in there, if not at outings, to stay away from the pains that they tink they feel, the stress, the results and the care from their parents. That room would be a personal expression of the teenager, his world, the one to his own.
Entering into adulthood, our vision expands all out, possibly the furthest one will ever reach, looking out through the windows to see the world outisde. The adult sees the bigger pictures in a sense, able to stretch out of their personal space, to see the things that concerns not only them. They pin their hopes on the schools that can be viewed through the windows, in hopes of their child getting a place, the park nearby that their folks will hang out in the morning, the market just a stone throw away to relieve the sunday mornings spent there with the family. They used such things, as distractions from the the laptop that lays on their work desk, on almost 24 hours a day, always trying to pull the adults away from what he/she tinks is most impt. The scene outside they see, is but a meer reminder of what they perserve daily for.
When one enters old age, their sight fails them. They no longer see as far they used to be able to, but focus on what's around them, those that they are able to see, are familiar with and having feelings for. Their rooms are cluttered with things that they hold dear to, things that have been in their PoV since young. No matter how frail old age makes one to be, they still try their best to walk out of that room, to join the family they hold dear to in the living room. To show care and concern occasionally but making food (whether the family appreciates or not), to buy things for the little kids and to try and persuade the teens to go out with them just to make them feel wanted. The old do so, simply to hold on to the those that they are still able to see, until they no longer can.
That's how our PoV evoles as we grows, widening and eventually fading out. So in a way, are we being restricted by our PoVs...?
Revealed on [4:34 AM]
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