We See What We Look For

Haiku with commentary

Photo by Simone Pellegrini on Unsplash

Pink leaves in my yard
Never noticed them before
What else have I missed?

So often in life, we see only a partial picture. We often don’t see people as they truly are, but rather we see what we want to see, or what we are capable of seeing at any given moment. In a troubled relationship, for example, we might…