the eye. light rays from an object are refracted through the cornea and the aqueous humour unto the lens, which are further refracted through the vitreous humour and finally forms an inverted image on the fovea. our cerebrum interprets the nervous impulses produced by the photoreceptors of the retina and the correct image forms in our brain.

if eyes are like a camera, i want to take photos of beautiful memories and they'll be imprinted in my mind forever. but sadly, our eyes don't work that way. unlike photographs, what we see now may not be what we perceive in the future. humans age and memories fade. images get more blurry and they are slowly pushed into a dark corner of our brain. and there they lay, forgotten and unused.

with eyes and a mind like ours, we tend to turn to a wondrous man-made machine: the camera. what we take will be what we perceive as a photo doesn't lie or diminish. (well, unless it's photoshop-ed) almost everyone has a camera to be used at all times. all we have to do is to swiftly take it out of the pouch and "kachaa!!", and there we'll have an observable memory. the images are there forever.

but why do i love my eyes and my brain more than a complicated invention? (even though i totally adore photography)

why does God give us these organs? so that we have feelings and thoughts about what we see with our eyes. God does not only give us an ability to look, but also to see. once i saw a loving couple lying down on a bench at the esplanade, talking and totally in their own world. i captured the image with my eyes and i sensed the love and affection. i took a snapshot with my camera (bad me), and on the contrary, when i reviewed it, i felt nothing at all! it's not until quite recently when realisation hit me and sometimes i feel really sad to see people mindlessly taking photos with their camera without seeing and savouring the special moments. i mean, even i do that at times, sub-consciously.

memories do fade. but what are memories without emotion?


there she goes
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