By Virginia Jasmin Pasalo

 

IN the book Blink, Malcolm Gladwell redefines how we can understand the world around us. He revolutionizes the way we understand the world within.

Gladwell talks about the processing of information from “thin-slicing” or filtering the very few factors that matter from an overwhelming number of variables, instead of deliberating on all information gathered, and making a decision or judgement. It is about conclusions we make in an instant, in the blink of an eye, from a few indications, or glimpses, to understand the world. What we can know about another person (or a situation) from thin slicing can be as accurate as one makes from the rigorous analysis of all information available.

Thin-slicing is an art of knowing. A poetry of thoughts, in prose.

 

The scars on the face of the moon

there, on the digital canvas,
I see him, somber strokes of paint
images and colors he wants others to see
and for me to glimpse, a hint of him

the part of him that dreams
of what he could have been
other than grieving
what he had lost, himself

how much of him does he keep
for himself, I wonder
how much of him is known
that he thinks he keeps, to himself?

I see his face, or someone else’s
face, a parenthesis to the secrets
a glimpse of the tragedies
unending commas of memories
he lives, and relives

I listen to his voice
or, the echo of a voice within
muted by a history of pain, maybe
or a story of love, that may have been
that lingers, still.

who would ever know?
I would never be certain
even when I see what I see
even if, the night has a thousand eyes
declaring what they see

the soul sees, and chooses
to caress, the scars
on the face of the moon

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