Perspectiva
Destructive good fortune versus constructive misfortune
Perspective translates into the science of optics, from medieval Latin. Refined over ages, from Ancient Egypt to the Renaissance and beyond, artists incorporated layers of meaning into their work by means of manipulating perspective.
This relative positioning of certain elements was a manner by which words were not necessitated in order to instill importance, hierarchy, or to delineate a story line of some nature. Accordingly, the same can be done with life — the way in which we position elements within our mind can effectively allow for innumerable modes of interpretation. In other words, all circumstances before us are not necessarily good or bad until we label them so.
There’s a common axiom in Eastern philosophy that tends to come up now and again, often referred to as the Parable of the Chinese Farmer.
For those who have not encountered it before or would like a refresher, it is as follows:
There was a Chinese farmer who lost a horse - it ran away. All the neighbors came around that evening and said that’s too bad. And he said “Maybe”.
The next day, the horse came back and brought…
