From Nov 10, 2007

Daily experience makes it easy to sometimes forget what is important.

More than anything else in this last several months, what I’ve learned about is being given perspective.  Perspective changes how you feel, it changes your experience.

For example: let’s say one is feeling lonely or left out.  Perhaps she  may feel judged by her friends, due to recent risky decisions she’s made.  Or, on another perspective, perhaps her friends are busy with their own new relationships and life in general and still love her just the same, wishing she would stop by sometime.  No one picks up the phone because they are all viewing the experience from their own perspective.

Perspective is absolutely the one piece that we have control over throughout our experience.  Sometimes things fail us, like time, money, or health, and some of those things we may not have a whole lot of control over.  But our perspective is paramount to experience.  Pick your perspective, and you change your life.

It’s the one thing you CAN CHOOSE.  When you pick the right perspective, there is nothing to worry about, because you know that things always turn out the way they are supposed to, they always turn out well, regardless of the emotions you have attached to the outcome.