“No picture is ever straight enough for the person who hung it.”
— The Sage
The Sage has always believed that hanging a picture reveals more about the hanger than the art itself. The moment the nail is tapped in and the frame is lifted into place, doubt creeps quietly into the room. What once seemed level from a distance suddenly tilts under scrutiny. The Sage observes that the human eye becomes most critical when it has been responsible for the result.
He notes that visitors rarely notice the slight lean, the half-degree of imperfection, or the imagined imbalance that torments the host. To everyone else, the painting looks perfectly content on its wall. But to the one who hung it, the smallest deviation feels monumental. Perfection, he says, is always hardest on the person who tried to achieve it.
With gentle humour, The Sage reminds us that this extends beyond walls and frames. We are often most troubled by the flaws in things we’ve done ourselves. Yet life, like a picture, rarely needs to be perfectly straight to be beautifully placed. Sometimes stepping back is the only adjustment required.
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