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The other day, I came across an interesting optical illusion : It said, "Honesty is the the best policy" in a regular triangular signboard. Being a prankster, I printed it out and showed it to a few friends and my ever gullible little sister and asked them to read what was written. Nine times out of ten, people answered, "Honesty is the best policy", and then looked at me like I was an infant who couldn't read English.
That set me thinking. I couldn't understand how people got confused with such a simple illusion. A few days later, I read a passage from Dan Brown's "The Da Vinci Code" which was based on a common misconception about the world famous painting ,"The Last Supper". It says that, certain images get so firmly imprinted on our brain that the brain automatically rejects the contradictory image, however different it may be.
Leave all the medical talk, but we can talk about our real life situation here. We seem to miss so many obvious things, and i'm not referring to our little illusion here. An appreciative or disapproving mark from your teachers , The I-wish-you-were-dead look behind the smile of your archenemy, the love behind an admonishment by a parent, an admiring smile by an adoring person... the list is endless. And like an optical illusion, we seem to overlook these little things.
I wish, as a human being, that our sixth sense would improve. it would help to avoid many unpleasant situations caused by trifles, get along better with our fellows, make society a better place to live, and most importantly, lift the veils of illusions from our eyes, and help us think clearly... After all, illusions are solved when thought about objectively, and life is the greatest illusion of them all...
Don't you agree???
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The writer is an engineering student studying at the Pune University. You can contact him personally on facebook(http://www.facebook.com/ninad.jane) and this blog.
