The painting.

You know, I was thinking earlier today that I seem to enjoy finding situations of increasing complexity. But then I came to the thought that perhaps all human interactions are incredibly complex. Just that with experience comes the ability to discern the minutiae that creates the texture of those interactions.

For example, being able to identify a single broad brush stroke in a painting, but bit by bit seeing each one for what it is, until you begin to see more of a composite image out of these individual brush strokes. You start to make out the lines that together define a tree trunk. Eventually a horizon comes into view. Elements of the sky come into focus. In the end, you might get a glimpse of the whole painting.

So then it wouldn't be so much that the situations are more complex as it is that I have a better grip on what is actually going on. Not really a bad thing at all.