View RSS Feed

day in a life

what is it with eyes?

Rate this Entry
2 Comments
by
Helga
, 08-25-2010 at 04:41 PM (1043 Views)
I was thinking about eyes. There are so many beautiful poems about eyes and we always seem to associate affection with something we see in our loved ones eyes. what is it that we see? I was at a local cafe today with my friend and we ran into an old friend, a guy we used to hang out with a few years ago. He and his girlfriend went inside to get some coffee and while they where there my friend said that even though this guy is not the cutest, you just have to spend a minuet with him to realize that he is the sweetest. when they came back and sat down with us I instantly remembered that his eyes show so much kindness and love. they are his best feature. A guy like that gets the cutest girl, and he did. I always had a small crush on him.

We look into people's eyes and hope to see something, maybe something that nobody else can see. They say the eyes are the windows of the soul and that you can't lie if you look into someones eyes. don't think there is much truth in that but what do I know.

My friend is gonna draw a picture of my dog, Spock, she got another friend to photograph him and she wanted a picture where you can see his eyes clearly because he has so much character. this is what we want in every living creature, eyes!

Now I can't say I don't do this cause I do, I look for something in people's eyes. What I am looking for I don't know. Maybe just their feelings, or thoughts.. something I don't know.

Maybe I should stop looking at something in peoples eyes and start listening to what they say, I tend to drift off and don't hear what people say. something I need to work on I guess...
Categories
Uncategorized

Comments

  1. Virgil's Avatar
    True, it is hard to look into someone's eyes directly when you are conversing. Sometimes that can be intimidating to the other person. I guess it depends on the context. At other times it can project sympathy and other times yet project confidence. There is so much nuance in our little human actions that we don't even realize.
  2. OrphanPip's Avatar
    Human beings rely heavily on facial expressions to assess the mood of others, and the eyes are an important part of that. Walt Disney discovered several years ago while making Fantasia that changing Mickey Mouse's eyes from black dots to the very large cartoon eyes we now associate with Disney made him much more emotive. There's also a tendency for human beings to appreciate things that have large eyes relative to their head, like human infants. You'll find this feature favored by breeders of dogs as well, pet dogs have much larger, and to us more emotive, eyes than wolves. Human beings read emotion and character into the actions of dogs because we have selectively bread dogs to have those features, they don't likely actually have "character" but we've chosen to favor dogs that act endearingly.

    Oddly enough, the famous domestication experiments performed on foxes in the Soviet Union, where they selected entirely on the basis of docility, resulted in a breed of floppy eared and large eyed spotted foxes. Large eyes are maybe deep down associated in our minds with trustworthiness and gentleness.