Rear View

I snapped this photo in downtown Toronto at Front and Jarvis Streets while waiting for my niece and sister to come to the car Yesterday. Melanie is looking for a place to live while she does her graduate work at UofT in the Fall.

I noticed the landmark building between two office towers behind me in the rear view mirror. I saw a familiar view in a fresh way, the mirror gave me a new perspective. How like life this is...sometimes we gain a new perspective when we look backwards and sometimes we gain new perspective on our circumstances by seeing things through the mirror of someone else's eyes.

I thought to myself, "I like this view, I should take more pictures this way." Looking backward can become a habit , a dangerous habit causing me to loose the present view. As I look at this photo, I can't see ahead; the rear view is blocking it. Life lesson learned, time to drive home . . . looking straigh ahead.