It's traumatic to meditate on the availability of information through the Internet, or the way we perceive the world as a result. People don't experience things totally or viscerally anymore. It's all through representation, be it a record on YouTube or a post on a blog.
I used to tell people I was a comic and they'd be fascinated. Now all you get is: 'Oh yeah, my cousin Steve's a comic.'
One who returns to a place sees it with new eyes. Although the place may not have changed, the viewer inevitably has. For the first time things invisible before become suddenly visible.
Certainly I've had the experience of thinking a person was one thing, and finding out they were another.
Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.
Sometimes a neighbor whom we have disliked a lifetime for his arrogance and conceit lets fall a single commonplace remark that shows us another side, another man, really; a man uncertain, and puzzled, and in the dark like ourselves.
It all meant something. Until it didn't.
Very quickly after meeting Dustin, the whole image I had of him was shattered.
My nephews all look at me differently now. Before, they couldn't relate to me, and now I'm like a god.
It's sad to be constantly judged for every move you make after your first success. If you wear your hair differently, you have changed.
I'm reading more than ever. I used to find it tedious, but now it's like my little friend - it takes my mind off things.
Common objects become strangely uncommon when removed from their context and ordinary ways of being seen.
For Napoli's fans, I went from an idol to a traitor; people did not love me anymore.
We read so that we can be moved by a new way of looking at things.
My old friend looked at me with a new respect. He was discovering in me a capacity for hypocrisy that he had never credited me with before.
Looking back we see with great clarity, and what once appeared as difficulties now reveal themselves as blessings.
He was constantly reminded of how startlingly different a place the world was when viewed from a point only three feet to the left.
I used to have a very unmediated experience of food but, because of the recipe testing, I've lost that now. I can't switch it off even when I'm on holiday.
I tell myself that's what you get when you put thirty-one toilets on the most popular girl's front yard. People tend to treat you a little differently than before.
When you go away, you see where you come from in a different light. I see Scotland, and the rest of Britain, as much more exotic than I used to.
I don't think of myself as a small receiver, but you can't control what somebody says about you. It hasn't held me back - actually, I think I've changed the perception of smaller receivers.
I walked home, seeing all my doubt from the other side. Have you ever seen that? Like when you go on holiday. On the way back, everything is the same but it looks a little different than it did on the way. It's because you're seeing it backwards.
having someone think of me that way was like discovering a new window in the room i'd lived in all my life.
