Hey Bradbury, I do know what your talking about. No offense about my sister, I happen to dislike her too. I never knew your brothers last name, Jenny had so many boyfriends... who could/would/want to keep track of all of them. I admit though, I never liked your brother. hehehe... :) Anyways...

To Mike...

You are right, most people can't see the pain others have or feel. And if they do they usually turn away. They figure "I've got enough to deal with." They are blind to the world and they do not see the beauty or the pain that is around them.

Most people don't have the 'time' to stop and look around. They are to busy trying to get somewhere that they don't look at the here and now. They don't stop to hear the music that the wind makes as it blows through the trees, or the sounds of children playing and laughing in innocence. To see a lone flower that dared to grow in someone's yard, to watch a sunrise or sunset. To smell the fruits as they walk by in the store. They turn away from and often become blind and deaf to the beggar in the street, the child crying in the abandoned building, the pain that glows within another's eyes. All these things and countless more that we just pass by in day to day life. It's sad, but true.

There are those few though, who do stop and take the 'time' to look around. They see beauty and pain in things/people that others never noticed before. They care, they love, they hate, they cry... They wonder why things are as they are and often try to figure them out. These people are different, and often scorned by others because they are different. They see the world with it's beauty and it's pain, and they don't turn away.

You know things that many of us don't. You see beauty in mathematics, "by all the shades that come together to form the picture." You once said that to me. You do take the 'time' to see. I hope you don't become blind, the way many of the others seem to be.