A group of us were working with the camera, the assistant was trying to get the camera to focus. But she didn't know which level of focus the camera was set to, so she would always zoom out completely and slowly zoom in from there. Which takes a while. So someone finally asks why she was taking so long, and her replied was "I need to go out in order to go in". The person who asked her quickly nodded in amusement and said "Yeah, I know, I need to see white in order to see black". I found the whole "exchange" to be quite entertaining - so out came the pen/notepad.
The exchange was quite funny, not just in the context and manner in which it had occured. But when you think about it for a while, you can see that it can be expanded to apply to other things in our lives. For example, how do we know we're happy if we've never been sad? Or know what chocolate souffle is like if we've only had cheesecake? Or what "unpretty" is if we don't know pretty? The answer is we wouldn't! That's what's so amusing! We think we know all that we need to know, but something or someone comes along and opens a new door or draws a curtain from a different window in the room. And when that happens, we are rarely ever the same again.
Yes, I do understand that the world is not "black and white", however it's not a matter of black or white, its more about having both black and white as options in order for us to see and understand that shades of gray can come from it.
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