Looking Up

Since a movie came out this summer called "Up," I think it's time to notice more things about changing one's perspective.

I already wrote about looking from the inside out - any change in how you look at your environment can reveal a lot about what is around you, what you've been missing, and how you tend to look at things.

This morning, I spent some time looking straight up into trees. 

It's amazing how many people go around looking down all the time. Nowadays, often it's looking down at some screen or other, thumbs a blazin'.

Looking up shows you information you didn't know before. Like, what tops of buildings look like. Or, what it's like to turn your gaze toward infinite space.

Interestingly, my sense of hearing also perked up when I started looking straight up. I became aware of lots of bird conversations going on up there that I had been oblivious to.

I remember looking up a lot when I was a kid, since I was too short to see anything. I remember what the undersides of counters looked like at the pizza parlor and the bank.

Now I have to remind myself to look up, even though I'm still just human-sized.