Do you know what I saw yesterday? I was looking out my kitchen window at about 7:00 in the morning, and I saw the two ladies who lived next door to me walking down the street dragging their golf clubs behind them.
That's odd, I thought. I don't know these ladies that well, but I know them well enough to know that they don't play golf. And even if they did play golf, the nearest golf course is at least 3 miles away. That's a long way to drag your golf clubs on foot, especially when you have a perfectly good car sitting in your driveway.
So yes, I thought that this was odd. And then I took my glasses off my head and put them on my face, and I noticed that the golf clubs weren't golf clubs at all. They were actually the ladies' dog, rearing up on his hind legs. I mistook the leash for a cart handle. And I mistook the dog for a golf bag.
On a normal morning, I think this would have prompted a little bit of anxiety about the state of my eyesight. There's no resemblance between that dog (or any dog, really) and a golf bag. Instead, I chose to enjoy the opportunity to see something in a completely different light, and to imagine a completely different scene than the one that was actually before me.
Who knows what other sights I might see? A tree could become the Eiffel Tower in the right light. The trailer that the neighborhood landscapers use to haul their equipment could look like a horse-drawn carriage. My front yard could be a putting green, and maybe nobody has to walk 3 miles to play golf after all. All the same, I think it might be past time to get my eyes checked.
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