Point of View

Dec 08, 2008

Posted by: John Admin

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Just dropping in briefly because I wanted to share this article by Charlaine Harris. Scroll down a little to the blog post and read about her holiday. She talks about the holiday village she sets up and how she imagines stories and events, while everyone else sees a multitude of colorful ceramic pieces arranged in somewhat of an organized fashion. It’s all about point of view. It all depends on who’s eyes your looking through when you tell the story. So while Charlaine Harris see’s a story about each piece she’s carefully arranged, someone else might see it from a different perspective.

The point of view you take and how you interpret someone elses point of view all depends on where you come from, the history we know and the history we’ve lived through, and personal experience. While I see Severus Snape as a selfish man who did what he did for selfish, very Slytherin-like reasons, Abbey, who guest blogged about Snape here several months ago, sees him as an immensely more complex character than I did. Our point of views on one single character are vastly different and we both see his sacrifices in different lights.

So just think, when you’re at the supermarket picking out apples, or waiting for the tree lighting ceremony in downtown. You might think that apple is going to taste incredibly sweet while someone else thinks that all those brown spots make it overripe and trash-worthy (just for the record, discolored spots on a piece of fruit are from one of two things: it means the fruit is super sweet b/c the discoloration is where the sugars have really developed, or someone dropped it and put it back.). You might be impatient and wishing they would hurry up and light the tree so you can get back into the warmth of the shops and go Christmas shopping while your best friend doesn’t mind waiting because the anticipation makes it all the more exciting.

So this holiday look around you. You and several other people will be in the same place at the same time, whether it be the supermarket for holiday dinner shopping, or downtown for the tree lighting. You are experiencing the same event but you come from different point of views. Respect that and embrace your own, and then go and write about it. 🙂





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