Mini Project

      Categories. Life is filled with categories. We put everyone and everything we come across into categories to identify them- sometimes we do it unconsciously but a lot of the time we judge people based on a sole image or scene that we have scene.
       For example this man on the left. If we had walked by the bus stop and he was crying and cursing we might categorize him as crazy. Or maybe as an alcoholic.
But what we don't always think about, even though we comprehend it, is that every single person in this world has their own life, their own problems and troubles that they face on a daily.


What most people probably wouldn't have figured out if they didn't know this man:
Earlier that day his wife came home and wanted a divorce and they fought in front of their children (below):

                                             Then his wife divorced him (on the right):



Now he's divorced (the left):







                                                    Heartbroken







There is so much we don't see when we just glance at a scene. So why do we think that it's okay to try and put the someone else's life together in our own head when we don't know all the details. If we didn't know the man at the bus stop above then we wouldn't have known anything about his family and what he had been dealing with.





     Everyone sees things differently and I think the picture on the right proves my point- Some people only see a woman walking on a path. Some people only see a man's face in between the trees. And some people see both. They say that a picture is worth a thousand words- so how come we never take the time to see the meaning behind the picture? Why do we put everything into categories and think we know the story behind everything.


                 It's hard to change habits though, and it's a habit for us to judge things, people, and scenes.