Wednesday, April 25, 2012

Perspective is a frustrating notion to think about because although it can often be similar, perspective can never fully be understood. However impossible the act may be though, I think it is necessary to attempt to understand the perspective of one another, and attempt to shift your own. Those who are sedentary in their thinking blame others for not understanding them. It is their lack of perspective, or rather, the lack of effort toward trying to see what other's see, that leaves them feeling isolated. This is not to suggest that everyone should think the same thoughts, and see the world the same way. That's rather dull and depressing. Uniqueness should be embraced. It is what is different from ourselves that reveals what is also the same. Worlds exist with in and around us, but we are only given glimpses of them. There will always be a hidden piece that can only be shown to us by someone else, like catching your own reflection in someone else's eyes. Try to see yourself as other's see you, and if you don't like what you see, change it, but before you change it, attempt to understand it. There is no right or wrong. There is only different. Who you are, and who they think you are, are different fractions of the same whole, and you will never know yourself, until you can know others.

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