The Lunar-Man

I looked up into the sky this evening, and noticed it was a half moon. At first glance it purely looked like a white semi-circle hovering in the velvet sky, as it always does. But when I began to look closely, I started to see a face. Not the standard man-in-the-moon that you see in a full moon, staring out at you. I began to see the moon's face in profile. As if he was gazing across the sky, at some celestial formation to his left. I tilted my head to one side and smiled at this peculiarly placed man. Then, once again, I began to see something different. I no longer saw the lunar-man's face, instead the moon looked more like it was missing it's better half. The glistening white seemed to stop too abruptly, with no shading between it and the black. It was more like someone had taken a bite out of it, and left it hollow. You could see the line where the moon ended, and the night sky began, but it almost looked like you could see the hollow inside too. I'm not going to lie, I preferred the smiling lunar-man to this eerie sight. I wanted to hopscotch across the space and fill the moon up again, so it was restored to it's former beauty.
It got me thinking, we can all see different images and ideas, in the same physical object. It's like cloud gazing; often one person can see a pattern, yet their friend has no idea how the cloud resembles that thing! Sometimes we notice things that others don't, or we interpret things in a way no-one else does. I wonder why that is? And I wonder why there are just some things we can never explain to anyone else, because they purely don't see it, or understand. If we could combine our understandings, we would be wiser than we ever thought possible!
But I guess that's just life isn't it. We have to learn from other people's wisdom, in order to try and see the things we can't quite on our own.

Word of the Day: hopscotch - to journey quickly and directly usually from one far place to another
I've decided to define the word of the day, as most of you who read this are too lazy to look up what they mean! To be honest, I don't blame you. I probably would be too!