02 April 08 - 10:15Your Perspective
“How we choose to see the world creates the world we see.”
(Barry Neil Kaufman, “Happiness Is A Choice”)
I love that quote. It’s so true, too. To use the old adage about “seeing the world through rose-colored glasses,” we decide what color glasses we’re going to wear. It’s called perspective.
How perspective works is we go through life experiencing things then filtering the experience – how we perceive it – through the perspective gained from doing that same thing with previous experiences.
Huh? Okay, let’s say your early experiences in life were really bad: a parent abandoned you or died when you were little, your house burned down when you were 5 and you lost all your stuff. This is going to affect how you feel about relationships with people and it will give you a frightened outlook on fire. Over-simple examples but you get the picture.
Put another way, if your perspective on life is happy, positive, loving and trusting, you will be easily pleased, ... (more)
