As I get older I
see things differently than I did in my youth. Although youth offers the
benefits of lasting energy, long term hopes and dreams, the feeling of having all
the time in the world, believing we are invincible etc etc…, age and experience
has given me gifts of a different kind. I am learning more patience,
acceptance, need and benefits of modification, different more meaningful
purpose, appreciation, value, priority shift, learning where I belong and a
better idea of where I want to be, and these are just to name a few.
Perspective for
each of us varies. Two people can look at the exact same thing and see
something completely different, walk away with an entirely different experience
and be led in directions that vary. Life’s experiences, circumstances and the
general make up of a person alter what and how one sees things. Although we may
have our own personal reasons for seeing things the way we do, we also have a
choice as to the eyes we see it through.
It may not always be easy; however, there is usually some way, somehow
to put a positive spin on every experience, if we choose to.
The truth is, we
limit our possibilities if we allow our perspective to be skewed in a negative
direction. The reality is that things are never all rainbows and unicorns, but
there is always something to be grateful for, and a positive perspective to be
found, we just need to be open, aware and acknowledge it. Some may look at this
idea as being ‘fake’, but I would have to disagree. I believe it’s making a
conscious choice to look at the moment, the circumstance or the person and view
it as an opportunity to change things in a positive direction. If we choose to
dwell on and continue to feed a cycle of negative and ugly ideas, feelings and
behaviours, nothing will ever change. Take the negative, learn from it and
change it, making something good come out of it. Positivity is contagious but
so is negativity!
Alana Regier
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