Chapter Twenty Eight: The Lens of Life

It is the optical capability of the eyes that humans can actually see what can be seen, all that is visible and can be touched by the other senses. In its simplest accurate form, the lens of the eyes captures the images that the mind can process, and the major interplay between the functioning of the other sensory organs aside from the power of sight and the hormones that produces emotion, especially those responsible for happiness, are accountable for creating the memories that truly matter.

Memories of great value are characterized by a special bond among many factors, usually those that have been felt and experienced. A fraction of a life, where happiness can be achieved by realizing the critique or relevance, is carefully withdrawn from the other memories, made to be told in its own rightful way, and then proceeds with the touch of wonder that only the careful interpretation of the movies can deliver.

Films, as it may be told, are not a stranger to the pain or happiness that this lifetime brings. A life who is still a complete stranger to this world is born into it, forced to live in the circumstances that such life was given into, receives the utter sadness or indiscriminate pleasure of the things encountered, have travelled through the treacherous path of moral complications and the issues of adolescence, and then the vision of its aftermath being vividly recalled in the prosence of the audience, on screen, but only with different actors on it.

It may be supposed that movies celebrate those moments that cannot be celebrated elsewhere, or discuss virtues that are illegal somewhere, exaggerate teenage youth as a silly place to make stupid mistakes, and identify a certain venue where life is to be hated or celebrated, like animation, for example. It is in this environment that the stranger looking on to the scenes of the film that he empowers himself or loses himself or both.

The many ways of expressing oneself is an important component of the lens of life. To capture what really matters relate to substantive value; the virtues that must be celebrated is dependent on someone's ability to interpret the experiences that happens to him, that accidentally occurs to him, that unfairly removed him from his values, or courageously identifying himself with the discrimination that prevails in societal norms.

The lens, it is safe to say, is primarily looking through the behavior of the rational beings, the way education explains the good and the bad, as well as the parameters of education that enhances learning in the most desired lucid effect. Films allow everybody to create a hyperbole to witness a behavior, make fun of a behavior, judge the behavior, learn or unlearn the behavior, and then become wise from the behavior.

But the mind always filters everything, because the brain summarizes all the beautiful, happy things, while it also protects the body from pain and suffering. However the case may be, one thing is absolutely accurate to behold: that the human condition, good or bad, deserves to be celebrated by the movies, where something is to be learned, or there is something to be truly proud of.

Only in this way that the lens of life makes the human soul to be truly liberated in all instances.

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The Chapter is sponsored by Hermes.