Otherwise imperceptible

The kids were jumping off chairs together and kept redoing it and saying "Wow! that was high. Let's try higher!" Each time I assume they noticed a change that was higher. I did not.

It was that act that fueled the thoughts of different things that I may not perceive that others do.  I thought of that litmus paper test in high school chemistry class where we taste it and record our findings, and I tasted the most terrible thing ever, but other people tasted nothing. I figured that someone was playing a terrible trick on me  and purposely soaked my paper in some vile tasting liquid as a joke. so,  I did not write what I observed thinking it was tainted, and giving in to peer pressure, at the time I felt like I was living on the streets watching a king parade around naked refusing to say that I saw no clothing. Then, my teacher explained that because of genetic differences, though it seemed that none in our class could perceive it thus, a small group actually tasted litmus paper as a terrible taste. So, perhaps it was like the princess and the pea. I left feeling proud of my extra sensory skill.

I was thinking about how children perceive a lifetime different and distances and heights differently. For example, have you ever revisited a childhood home, school or playground and  noted how much smaller it seems? To my kids, they were getting higher, even a few centimeters would be noticed by them as significant.

Ultimately, this made me think about how we are often reminded how our own perceptions are quite different from God's. And just lately, I watched "Cosmos" where time was put into a frame that made us familiar, a calendar year. The beginning of our universe was day one of January and we were at the last day of December. It helped us see how even as adults compared to children, we think that we are the ultimate, but the minute changes might not even be perceive worthy to a greater being. And, yet we learn that God is mindful of every blade of grass even, woah! It is like how kids think our ability to know things is magical. Our supreme being seems magical in doing impossible things.

Total tangent: magicians lead us to false conclusions, by messing with flaws in our perception. I notice when I build my home in Active worlds if I move, changing my perspective, things no longer line up. When they seemed to originally. It is very frustrating to realize our perceptions are not always the best match for truth.