I’m re-reading the Chronicles of Narnia this summer as part of a book club. I hadn’t read them all the way through in about 7 or 8 years. It’s interesting how different things catch your interest at different life stages.
The Magician’s Nephew has always been my least favorite of the series, but I’ve enjoyed it this time around. I also came across a line that captures some of what I’ve thought about and even posted about in the past.
“For what you see and hear depends a good deal on where you are standing: it also depends on what sort of person you are.” (Ch. X)
One of the things I’ve been thinking about a lot over the past month is how who we are, with all of our experiences and all of our personal wiring, see and interpret the external world. There are still so many that like to insist on the certainty of their vision and perspective, yet they lack the self-reflective capacity to understand what kinds of things influence their ability to see. I continue to recognize in myself these things all over the place. At worst it is a frightening notion to realize some of our own limitations. At best it is a good and humbling realization.
