Perspectivism

Why should we spend life afraid of the STORMS when all we have to do is learn how to DANCE in the RAIN!! Author Unknown

Many of us have faced struggles, whether it is with Love, Loss, and Adversities in Life. Some of us have faced more than one. Sometimes we may have felt we have been dealt more than our fair share. Having fallen down and had to get back up although each time we forget in that moment of despair that we were able to get up and overcome the hardships, the difficulties. These are moments that we even experience as a child. They continue on into our teen years, further more they still continue into our adult life. It seems like we do not escape from having to come face to face with a challenging time. No matter how positive we are, those moments we are left feeling hopeless.

It is easy to say to yourself: Be positive, keep your head up, it will pass. Not so easy to believe in this when you are wanting that something to change from bad to good with no solution as to how it possibly can or will happen.

These are the moments that we need to change our PERSPECTIVE!!
Perspective definition: a visible scene, especially one extending to a distance.

Imagine when you look up close at an object, really up close, as close as you possibly can get, then stand as far back from the same object and your perspective on the exact same object changes.

Now imagine this: you are inside a house in the middle of an intense argument with someone, both of you yelling back and forth with each other. Neither of you can hear what the other is saying since you both are so intent on making your own point while raising your voices so loud, neither of you can hear what the other is saying. Now, you walk outside of the house, look through a window and you see yourself inside having this exact same argument. What would be different? Your PERSPECTIVE!! You would be able to not only see yourself and hearing what you are saying but you are able to see the other person and hear what they are saying as well. Why? Because you have put distance between yourself and the situation which gives you a clearer perspective!!

When you are faced with difficulties, searching for answers, reflect back to another time that you dealt with a complication... did you survive it? Once you had overcome it and were in a better place, does it seem as difficult as it did back in the moment? My favourite time to reflect back on was in the child/teenage years. Wow, did those times seem like the worst and were the hardest to overcome, at least they did when I was living in that moment of them. When you were the one left out of an event that all your friends were participating in or when the boy you had a crush on did not like you because he liked your friend instead, the part you desperately wanted but did not get in the school play. Recall how you felt in that very moment. Devastated & hopeless!! However, when you look back on that childhood moment, it does not seem as significantly as important to you now as it did when you faced it back then. This is where you should realize that whatever devastation or struggle you are experiencing now, can be faced and put behind you just like that childhood moment was.

One last thing, always remember that someone else in this world is far worse off than whatever struggles you are dealing with. Taking that moment to realize this, you can simplify what may seem like pure darkness to a small shadow and look forward to whatever is awaiting you in the sunshine. Every shadow has sunshine for a shadow would not exist without sunshine!!

This is a "LIVINISM"!! <3