Perspectives
September 4, 2010Perspectives are a funny thing, and can sometimes be dangerous.
I have been thinking about perspectives today and one has been brought to my attention.
Yesterday, I had what I classified as a “bad food day”. In my quest to continue to drop weight, there are some foods I have tried to not eat as often and some foods I try to avoid all together. This quest is further motivated by the digestive issues I have fought with since I was 16. Yesterday I ate every wrong thing for me and way too much of it. As a result, I posted on Facebook that I had a “bad food day”. Not too much later, someone posted that “Any day with food is a good day”. This post I decided to ignore with the thought that , they don’t know, they don’t understand. Today, I received as similar comment, but with…. Perspective. This was a childhood friend who had recently had some significant surgery on his digestive tract and was only allowed to have liquids. From his perspective, he is correct. …and this got me thinking, There are so many ways to look at so many different things. Considering that some have to eat from trash cans, or some have even less than that, the first comment about food seems all the more fitting.
How often do we disagree with comments or statements just because we fail to give them the proper perspective?
Good thoughts. I did think after posting that I probably didn’t know where you were heading and probably should have kept the old yap closed! Glad you gave it a second thought and understood my intent rather than my words!