What I'm talking about is those times when you think of some one as incredibly ugly, but the longer you stare at them the prettier they become. And then suddenly, on a random moment, you're hit by their new found beauty and think them to be one of the most beautiful people you've ever met. I'm not talking about learning about the person and thinking them to be pretty because of their personality. I'm talking about just staring at some ones face and noticing that the strangeness in his nose is quite cute because of how it falls in the rest of his face, or the mole in the center of her face is actually adorable because of how it frames her mouth. Random things like that, that hit you at completely random times.
Or opposite to that, when you stare at something so long it becomes ugly. This is one that comes commonly with clothes. Like, when you buy a sweater on sale. The whole time in the store you were staring at this sweater in your hands and in your head you've agreed its the world's perfect sweater. Somewhere between the car ride home and placing the sweater on a hanger, you've noticed that the stitching is tacky and the cut is unflattering. Then your stuck with a sweater that was overpriced even when on sale and is non-returnable.
So what is it about noticing these details that changes are view of things so completely? For whatever reason, the small things seem to overpower the big picture until the details themselves become the big picture. They become all you see, all you know, all you think of. Is this what makes "detail-oriented" such a great thing to write on job applications? Is it the looming truth that eventually the details becomes all a person sees, regardless of how a finished product looks? Or is it just all-together impossible for something to look good without immaculate details to begin with?
