About My Parallax View
I’m a Nebraskan. I’m from Nebraska.
That might seem redundant, but I think some people all-too-eagerly give up being a Nebraskan as soon as they move away, and I haven’t. And I can't imagine that I ever will.
But I did move away. In 1997, after a childhood in Grand Island, and a much older but no less childish young-adulthood in Lincoln, I developed wanderlust. I wanted to find out what it was like living someplace different.
Now this Nebraskan lives in San Francisco.
I was looking for someplace different and I gotta tell you, I found it in spades. And living here for the past ten or so years I have grown, matured, struggled, and questioned a lot of things. I’ve had some of my beliefs tested and some reinforced. On occasion, I’ve had my mind blown. Throughout this process, I’ve gradually become a San Franciscan, fully embracing everything that it entails.
I would expect a San Franciscan who moves to Nebraska with an open heart and mind to undergo a similar transformation. In many ways they are truly different worlds. And though I’m here now, I’m still a Nebraskan, and that is how we will achieve parallaxis.
The term parallax pertains to the viewing of something from two or more perspectives – particularly how differently a thing can appear simply depending on where you’re sitting. I find that I have a parallax view on a lot of things in my life, now that I see them as a Nebraskan, but also as a San Franciscan. It’s actually a really nice view.
So that’s what I hope I can provide with this blog – along with some laughs, and maybe a few things that make us all think a little – a parallax view on our worlds, San Francisco and Nebraska.
That might seem redundant, but I think some people all-too-eagerly give up being a Nebraskan as soon as they move away, and I haven’t. And I can't imagine that I ever will.
But I did move away. In 1997, after a childhood in Grand Island, and a much older but no less childish young-adulthood in Lincoln, I developed wanderlust. I wanted to find out what it was like living someplace different.
Now this Nebraskan lives in San Francisco.
I was looking for someplace different and I gotta tell you, I found it in spades. And living here for the past ten or so years I have grown, matured, struggled, and questioned a lot of things. I’ve had some of my beliefs tested and some reinforced. On occasion, I’ve had my mind blown. Throughout this process, I’ve gradually become a San Franciscan, fully embracing everything that it entails.
I would expect a San Franciscan who moves to Nebraska with an open heart and mind to undergo a similar transformation. In many ways they are truly different worlds. And though I’m here now, I’m still a Nebraskan, and that is how we will achieve parallaxis.
The term parallax pertains to the viewing of something from two or more perspectives – particularly how differently a thing can appear simply depending on where you’re sitting. I find that I have a parallax view on a lot of things in my life, now that I see them as a Nebraskan, but also as a San Franciscan. It’s actually a really nice view.
So that’s what I hope I can provide with this blog – along with some laughs, and maybe a few things that make us all think a little – a parallax view on our worlds, San Francisco and Nebraska.
Comments on "About My Parallax View"
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S_K_tone said ... (July 17, 2008 10:05 PM) :
post a commentFYI-the ability to develop a parallax point-of-view, to maintain two seemingly contradictory, or diametrically opposed views is the sign of superior intellect, esp. since the Heisenberg uncertainty principle experiments.