Perspective

Two weeks ago I sat through an entire Longhorn football game in the rain.  Call me crazy, but it was fun.  My wife wisely chose this particular game to miss, and she watched from the dry warmth of our home.  We both witnessed the same game, but our perspectives were very different.  Perspective is a powerful thing.  The viewpoint from which you experience life has a significant impact on how you feel about it and react to it.  Foreign tragedies don’t impact us the same way as those that take place on US soil.  Even locally, crimes across town just don’t seem as real as those in our neighborhood.  The same can be said for the struggles and victories we face daily.  A good balanced perspective can keep you from going too far to one extreme.  All you have to do is put your situation into a broader perspective.  It is probably not near as bad, or near as good, as you might think!

 Have you ever sat on the porch of a beach house and watched a storm roll in over the horizon?  It can actually be a beautiful sight.  But if you are in a small boat well offshore seeing the same storm, beautiful is probably not be the adjective that would come to mind.  The power of perspective...