When you are away from something long enough, you begin to see things that you never noticed before. It can be something as simple as the way that the morning light reflects on skyscrapers on your walk to work, or how the wind softly whispers through the evergreens as you sit waiting for the bus. There are so many things that I took for granted as I was growing up in the Pacific Northwest that I am seeing in a completely new light.
The same goes for people which may or may not be a good thing. Sadly, being oblivious is a much easier way to stay happy, but then again, I don't believe that it is a real sort of happiness to live in delusion. I would rather face the truth than live in a world that is a conjuration of my fanciful imagination. Living like that only ends in pain.
Anyways, with heightened observation you begin to notice the meanings behind simple looks, thoughtful expressions and other things that you may have previously missed due to living largely in your own mind. I am not such a fool as to assign deeper meanings to all these things that I notice. Too much scrutiny will only lean to paranoia, but I like to think about it from an artistic perspective and imagine how I would recreate it on canvas or paper.
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