Shadows of Man
I’m sure you were all familiar with the movie Peter
Pan. One highlight of the film besides
Captain Hook being afraid of crocodiles is that Peter Pan’s shadow can walk
away from him. Curios huh! Well, when we visited Science Centrum my
curiosity ended. There was this exhibit there which is called
“Shadow Freezing”. You go inside the
room stand in front of the wall while the bright lights are open and after a
few seconds close the lights and walk away from the wall and… there you leave
your shadow frozen on the wall. Nice
experience and upon looking at my shadow left on the wall my mind started to go
whirling to a lot of things.
They say shadows are reflections -
reflections of how we look like or what shape does things has. We can even play a game using our hands
making some animal shadows. Our hands
can reflect the shadow of a dog, horse, bird or a rabbit. Reflections thou has a deeper meaning than
that of just being a shadow.
Shadows are just a reflection of
a persons feature or his body posture/movement. One might look big and strong on his shadow but you wouldn’t know
if the person who has that shadow feels the same way. What am I pointing at?!
All of us has shadows that
reflects us but such reflections doesn’t really mean who we are. You wouldn’t know a person by just looking
at his reflections right?! I mean one
person might have the most angelic face that anyone could see but has the worst
demonic attitude and some can have a strong, terrifying look but has the
softest heart. This is a good example
of the saying “Do not judge a book by its cover.”
This may seem weird but no matter
how bad a person can be I can still see the goodness that is in him (even the
person has done nothing good to me); no matter how nice and sweet someone can
be I can still see the lies in his eyes; no matter how boyish a girl may move I
can still see the girl in her; no matter how feminine he may seem to others I
can still feel the man within him; no matter how old a person might look like there
is still a child inside him.
It is nice to see beyond the
reflection, it feels good reading between the lines… but sometimes seeing and
knowing to much can be painful enough to make you wish you were blind.
