DEEPER LOOK
THE MOVIE
In the movie “Head Over Heels”, Bob Smoot played by Freddie Prince Jr. asked his girlfriend, Amanda played by Monica Potter, “Do you believe in Love at First Sight?” Amanda replied, “ It is too easy. I believe in taking a DEEPER LOOK.”
Love at first sight is idealistic to those who are hopeless romantics or to those singles who are still waiting for a magic that comes on their sight once their soulmates would appear in midst of the enticing mist ala Hollywood effect. That’s not bad after all. In the case of Amanda, she does not wait for the magic. She does something to acquire the magic and that is to take the DEEPER LOOK, to get to know the person she is interested with, to see how far she will get to be enticed by knowing more of the person, to search the goodness in the person.
Amanda is an artist. She is a dreamy restorer of Old Master paintings at the Metropolitan Museum in New York. That figures why she has this kind of character. Artists are into venturing various interpretations of arts, which requires taking a DEEPER LOOK at the works, finding the magic in the colors and strokes of the masterpieces.
VAN GOGH
Not all have this quality of looking at things earnestly. I believe most of us most of the time rely on first impressions. Ken Gire, the author of Windows of the Soul, admitted that in few minutes of looking at the masterpieces of Vincent Van Gogh in the museum in Malibu, he shook his head and wondered why such ordinary paintings were sold for so outrageous price. Not until he got into knowing the person Vincent Van Gogh. Thanks to the Don McLean’s song Vincent, he began to understand who he was, what he was trying to say in his paintings, why he suffered for his sanity and how he tried to set people free and so the song goes. He began to know that Van Gogh was a Bible-man. He began to find out that Van Gogh tried preaching with the poorest of the poor in the remotest part of the city. And then Ken looked again at the paintings of Van Gogh. This time he looked, listened and appreciated the magic in Vincent’s works.
MUSIC
Sometimes it takes a great effort to look at things in deeper level. Sometimes things just grow on you as they were just shoved into your system.
One time I was listening to a new song in the radio. I told myself, “ O it’s just another one of those songs from John Legend. I’ve had enough of him.” And then it kept on playing on the radio for three or more weeks and before I knew it, the song grew on me and I began to like it.
When I first listened to the song Come What May from the soundtrack of the movie Moulin Rouge, I found the voices of Ewan McGregor and Nicole Kidman funny. Not until I saw the movie, the song Come What May earned its respect it deserves.
WORKING RELATIONSHIPS
Ken Gire suggested something on how to relate with human beings. It could be a better world if people look at each other as being put in picture frames and try to study the strokes of the experiences behind characters, to appreciate the colors that have transpired in each others’ lives, to search for the goodness in each other, to have that DEEPER LOOK. This way, being trapped or restrained in a certain image brought by first impressions, good or bad, true or false, may be avoided.
If being applied in the office: Mang Bentong is not just a four-eyed messanger but a father who wants his son to finish college; Elisa is not a lonely spinster but a happy and contented single lady who finds joy in taking care of her parents and in helping others; Julia is not a stingy, good-for-nothing accountant but who hopes that her son would recover from frequent attacks of asthma; Eng’r Valdez is not just a computer weirdo but is also vedioke king. Would this frame of mind enhance healthy working relationships? I believe so.
RESPECT
Not all get to know all. That is true. However, believing that each and everyone has one or more good points either exposed or hidden may broaden perspectives on impressions and may give everyone the drive to get to know as many souls as possible. This frame of mind will surely lead to RESPECT for each other. A painting being looked at deeply earns its respect for it earns its space on the wall. A person being appreciated earns his respect for he earns his space in someone’s heart.
In the movie “Head Over Heels”, Bob Smoot played by Freddie Prince Jr. asked his girlfriend, Amanda played by Monica Potter, “Do you believe in Love at First Sight?” Amanda replied, “ It is too easy. I believe in taking a DEEPER LOOK.”
Love at first sight is idealistic to those who are hopeless romantics or to those singles who are still waiting for a magic that comes on their sight once their soulmates would appear in midst of the enticing mist ala Hollywood effect. That’s not bad after all. In the case of Amanda, she does not wait for the magic. She does something to acquire the magic and that is to take the DEEPER LOOK, to get to know the person she is interested with, to see how far she will get to be enticed by knowing more of the person, to search the goodness in the person.
Amanda is an artist. She is a dreamy restorer of Old Master paintings at the Metropolitan Museum in New York. That figures why she has this kind of character. Artists are into venturing various interpretations of arts, which requires taking a DEEPER LOOK at the works, finding the magic in the colors and strokes of the masterpieces.
VAN GOGH
Not all have this quality of looking at things earnestly. I believe most of us most of the time rely on first impressions. Ken Gire, the author of Windows of the Soul, admitted that in few minutes of looking at the masterpieces of Vincent Van Gogh in the museum in Malibu, he shook his head and wondered why such ordinary paintings were sold for so outrageous price. Not until he got into knowing the person Vincent Van Gogh. Thanks to the Don McLean’s song Vincent, he began to understand who he was, what he was trying to say in his paintings, why he suffered for his sanity and how he tried to set people free and so the song goes. He began to know that Van Gogh was a Bible-man. He began to find out that Van Gogh tried preaching with the poorest of the poor in the remotest part of the city. And then Ken looked again at the paintings of Van Gogh. This time he looked, listened and appreciated the magic in Vincent’s works.
MUSIC
Sometimes it takes a great effort to look at things in deeper level. Sometimes things just grow on you as they were just shoved into your system.
One time I was listening to a new song in the radio. I told myself, “ O it’s just another one of those songs from John Legend. I’ve had enough of him.” And then it kept on playing on the radio for three or more weeks and before I knew it, the song grew on me and I began to like it.
When I first listened to the song Come What May from the soundtrack of the movie Moulin Rouge, I found the voices of Ewan McGregor and Nicole Kidman funny. Not until I saw the movie, the song Come What May earned its respect it deserves.
WORKING RELATIONSHIPS
Ken Gire suggested something on how to relate with human beings. It could be a better world if people look at each other as being put in picture frames and try to study the strokes of the experiences behind characters, to appreciate the colors that have transpired in each others’ lives, to search for the goodness in each other, to have that DEEPER LOOK. This way, being trapped or restrained in a certain image brought by first impressions, good or bad, true or false, may be avoided.
If being applied in the office: Mang Bentong is not just a four-eyed messanger but a father who wants his son to finish college; Elisa is not a lonely spinster but a happy and contented single lady who finds joy in taking care of her parents and in helping others; Julia is not a stingy, good-for-nothing accountant but who hopes that her son would recover from frequent attacks of asthma; Eng’r Valdez is not just a computer weirdo but is also vedioke king. Would this frame of mind enhance healthy working relationships? I believe so.
RESPECT
Not all get to know all. That is true. However, believing that each and everyone has one or more good points either exposed or hidden may broaden perspectives on impressions and may give everyone the drive to get to know as many souls as possible. This frame of mind will surely lead to RESPECT for each other. A painting being looked at deeply earns its respect for it earns its space on the wall. A person being appreciated earns his respect for he earns his space in someone’s heart.
Comments
Although, sometimes subconscious dictates that you love someone even you know why. You just grab the thrill to know why by knowing the person better.