Slices, or sticks, cubes or cheese spread—how does it really matter? Cheese is Cheese, be it in any form. Sticky and gooey, pale white, or faint yellow—

To a straightforward thinking, ordinary human being, it truly doesn’t matter.

But Yes it does matter would be the emphatic reply of a chef…..Placing cheese slices squeezed between a vegetable sandwich, and processing the cheese and preparing Cheese-lings are two completely different things.

Likewise, I may chip in that whether you add 4 and 3, or 5 and 2, the answer is going to be 7 in both the cases right? So how does it really matter?

Yes it does matter would be the reply of a Mathematics wizard; even if the result is the same, how the result is arrived at DOES matter.

The other day I casually dropped in at the art studio of a friend, who was gearing up for his monsoon exhibition. I saw him hurriedly mixing a few colors here and there, juggling between his palates. Every time he was mixing red with green, to get the orange he needed. I asked him off hand, why isn’t he mixing green with red, and he gave me a “you don’t understand anything” look!

To my ordinary eyes, how does it matter really, whether one mixes green in red, or red in green? But to the perfectionist eyes of an artist, it matters big time. He alone knows the kind of shades he wants to see come alive on his canvas.

So when a pessimistic person sees a glass of water, and says it is half empty; I usually cross opine by remarking that it is actually half full. That reflects my optimism in approaching a situation.

This whole world works on perceptions. And perceptions ought to differ; so also viewpoints.

Psychologists world over emphasize the significance of perceptions and viewpoints in our day to day lives. And perceptions and viewpoints are never Right or Wrong. There’s no black and white in it. There’s always a scope for grey.

So, the next time a thought comes to your mind, of how does it matter—whether, as a popular saying goes, a honeydew falls on the knife, or the knife falls on the honeydew,  think twice….For you, it might not matter; but to the Honeydew, or may be to the Knife, it might matter after all  !!!

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