Half Full, Half Empty...One Tree Does Not a Forest Make?

This photo was taken by David Brown on Flickr.com in 2008.

I look at it and see that it is half full and you look at it and see it is half empty. It is equally both because it is in how each of us sees it.

I look out at a landscape and focus on the tree in front of me, doting on it's pine needles and cones, crooked branches, peeling bark, arching toward the sky. You look out at this same landscape and see all the trees at once, declaring it to be a forest. I don't see the forest, I see the tree. It is the same thing at once.

It is in how we see it that matters.