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I would like to think I see the world in as much color as I can both literally and figuratively, I would like to think that I also try to look always at both sides of the grass, at the whole cup and not just half of it, I would like to think that I can do my best to see as much as I can of this world, but in the end, nature has the upper hand. Those beautiful creatures out there that capture my heart and yours with their beautiful colors and shades, we look at them and we think about beauty, we think about how they are just simply beautiful, and simply colored, and we may have always tried to be in each others’ shoes and tried to see the world from different points of view but in the end they were all just humane angles, we never look at a colored butterfly and think about how lucky we would be if we could view the world from its literal point of view, to have this great wide world out there colored at least twice as much as the one we see. No matter how much of an optimist you are, this world is a million times more beautiful and a million times more colored than you give it credit for, and even in the eyes of just a little flying insect or a swimming little tiny shrimp. RESOURCES: For the cool shrimp: http://phenomena.nationalgeographic. com/2008/07/19/the-mantis-shrimp-has-the-worlds- fastest-punch/ http://theoatmeal.com/comics/mantis_shrimp https://theconversation.com/mantis-shrimp-have-the- worlds-best-eyes-but-why-17577 https://cosmosmagazine.com/biology/incredible-bi- zarre-spectrum-animal-colour-vision http://phenomena.nationalgeographic. com/2014/01/23/the-mantis-shrimp-sees-like-a-satel- lite/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mantis_shrimp#Eyes For the eagle: http://www.insightvisioncenter.com/human-vi- sion-vs-eagle-vision/ https://www.wonderwhizkids.com/bird-s-vision https://www.quora.com/How-is-hawk-vision-better- than-human-vision-anatomically-eye-components- and-visual-cortex For the blue triangle butterfly: https://entomologytoday.org/2016/03/09/the-eyes- of-common-bluebottle-butterflies-have-15-photore- ceptor-classes/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphium_sarpedon https://cosmosmagazine.com/biology/incredible-bi- zarre-spectrum-animal-colour-vision For the colossal squid: https://listverse.com/2010/12/12/10-animals-with-in- credible-eyes/ For the dragonfly: https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn27015-drag- onfly-eyes-see-the-world-in-ultra-multicolour/ For the basics about human vision: https://www.webmd.com/eye-health/amazing-hu- man-eye For the spookfish: http://thescienceexplorer.com/nature/12-cool- est-eyes-animal-kingdom 20 The Recap Magazine