The truth of Motion and the lie of a snapshot

“Say cheese”, “Snap!”

A lie that will last forever.

We say cheese when taking photos, so that when anyone, including ourselves, looks at the photo they imagine we were having a good time, no matter what happened just before or after the photo was taken.

Our vision has different aspects of “functions”, including visual acuity (the resolution of our vision), visual field (the area we can see), color vision (ability to see and distinguish colors), and motion perception (the ability to perceive motion). Motion perception provides a valuable additional source of information that cannot be obtained otherwise, even with high-quality still images.

This is also true for our lives, looking at snapshots of lives can be deceptive. They don’t give us all the information; they don’t show the ups and downs and twists and turns. Billions of people have seen the 9.58 seconds of Usain Bolt’s “work”, that 9.58 seconds does not show the days, months, and years of hard work that Bolt and his support network have put in to make the less than 10 seconds possible.

In the age of Tik-Tok and 280-character tweets, it is of utmost importance to remind ourselves and probably, more importantly, next generations, that life is not a snapshot. Life has ups and downs, hard and easy, and getting “there” is a journey. A journey filled with motion and many snapshots.

This past week we, at NG, received the updated and even higher quality version of RK (Refractive Kit) which is functionally great and looks amazing! I screamed out of joy when I held it in my hands! The snapshot of RK is a fancy product, but the journey and the motion the product and the team have gone through, took more than 36 months and hundreds of hours of work from our amazing support networks around the world!

Support network includes:

Harvard iLab, BB7, Muso for Health, NECO, Adhoc Advertisement, Perfect Measure, and countless individual mentors