Everyone sees the world through their own unique view but often times I forget this and many times others don’t see it at all. I think about the writer’s strike and how the writers feel the studios/corporations are bullying them into getting lesser benefits (which I agree with) and how the studios feel they need to make certain profitibility margins.
Politics: Recently some of my co-workers are upset because they see Hillary Clinton as supporting paying for illegal aliens to go to college (I am not even sure there is truth in the statement), but they don’t seem to want to see how the most powerful people in the world could make most places on this planet communities that take care of their own and…
Driving to work: On my way to work there is a merge; from two lanes to one. Now I have always thought that when the line ends you merge alternately one from each lane. One day a “soccer mom” (as was indicated on her license plate) opened her window and began yelling because she thought we should have merged into “her” lane, behind her. I thought about this today when, at a light that merged, I was ahead and a big truck raced to beat me. At first I was irritated. “Why did he have to be so rude?” “Why did he have to race past me just because he could?” Then I thought, “Why does this bother me so?” “So what if he is ahead? Am I in a race?” I tried hard to let it go and I did: Intellectually at first because within the fibers of my being it still bothered me. “Why is it so hard to do?” He didn’t hurt me, but I wanted to be first. “Did I need to be first?” Clearly it didn’t matter. I have to work very hard to be aware of and let these things go. It is even harder if I am having a bad day.
Perspective is everything.
