Perspective

I'm learning a lot about perspective these days. I'm also learning a lot about the circumstances or events that take place that usually lead one to think about something like perspective. Unfortunately perspective is something that not many people seek. It seems like life is in typically in charge of deciding when we are ready to evaluate our station or position along the journey. Such has been the case with me.

The events of the last several weeks have been beyond my control. Unfortunately I cannot avoid these events. Fortunately I can learn from these events. It feels to me that perspective is the positive result of responding to a challenge in the right way. When we are dealt a difficult hand we can either look inward, seek pity, and lament our condition our we can look inward, ask why, and seek to discover what can be learned. Life is a schoolmaster... it would be a big shame if we did not look at it from that perspective.