I looked through a Kaleidoscope and saw magnificent colours and patterns. I found a quick pleasure by only observing the ever changing designs. My attention was forever kept in the vast reconstruction of images and it was after sometime I began to wonder. I asked myself, how does this work? How are these connected to the images my eyes saw? My head and mind knew better, that this was not reality. But then again, reality is what we make it. Until I had began asking various questions concerning the particular "toy", it was only known to me that these pictures were real and that it was the truth. My curiosity had me to believe otherwise after the questions led my mind to run through other possibilities.
It was at this point a friend of mine gave me his outlook on life and kaleidoscopes. As you turn it, he said, the images are always changing, yet never the same and you are hardly able to control the change. He didn't say all this exactly by the way, I just am putting what I remember and applying what else I had to say about this. This is very much like life to me. You are able to make change, though the outcomes are not always perfect or predictable. Every situation is never the same and we are always growing, changing, forming into something different. We are never the same and never will be. Life may turn one way, and we may dislike it's colours at time, or find no pleasure there for us. But the only way to find the perfect image is to keep turning and eventually all will be beautiful in the eyes of the beholder.
