The real voyage of discovery consists not
in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.

Marcel Proust

As humans, we all crave to be seen, understood, and appreciated for who and what we are — in short, to be recognized. But recognition is much more complex than it might seem at first blush. The word itself comes from Latin — “re-” (“again”) combined with “cognoscere” (“to know”) — and it actually means “to know again.” At its core, recognition isn’t just about seeing and being seen; rather, it’s about detecting the deeper patterns that allow us to have true sight. True recognition, then, is an act that requires us to look with fresh eyes — to know again — those very same things we had thought we understood: ourselves, each other, and our shared world.