Ever look at something one way for a really long time? Like not just a few hours but years and years and then just one day your perspective changes and your views are altered forever? And you know it's never just on that one thing. No everything that's connected to your first idea also now must be reexamined. It's almost like now you're double checking yourself. I know that I often think, "How did I miss that? What else can I see here?" And I don't just mean things that I'm actually physically looking at like a shirt that looks good in the store but when you get home it's herendous. No, more I mean life expectations. Or chances that we take. Or plans that we make. And the craziest thing is that just the smallest thing can alter one's perspective forever. It only takes a minute to wreck a car but that experience can change the way you drive or look at cars forever. It only takes two people, a few words, and a piece of paper to get married (really if you think about it) but it can alter one's perspective on life forever. I don't know...I just guess that to me the human brain and just how we view ourselves and things around us and how our brain processes it all is amazing and truly we should be in awe of the creator of something so amazing.
There have been so many times in my life that my perspectives have been altered. I'm sure in smaller measures it's happening everyday all day long. But some major alterations occured on a few occasions that I thought I'd process out loud.
When I gave my life to Christ. My whole world view and purpose in life was changed forever. It was as if I was now walking around on my hands because my entire world, or what I knew as my world turned upside down.
When I graduated from high school. I don't know. Maybe it's just me but my graduation from high school was so much more altering than my graduation from college. Maybe because I truly felt like an adult leaving home and moving away.
When I moved to DC. Talk about culture shock and major adjustments on my world view.
When I connect with friends who become some of my best friends. That alteration broadens everything just because now I've added some of their thoughts and views into my life.
And finally (only in this post not in reality or my life) when I stepped out of 9-5 job (or acutally a 7:30-4:30 job) and joined missionary ranks altering so many perspectives forever.
by the way...the picture is just the close up shot of the side of an elephant
4 comments:
Dude, I totally though it was a super close up of some one's face...
Tis true though, perspectives are tricky things that fool us, teach us, and ultimately shape us.
my grandmother told me she had to keep looking at her marriage certificate throughout the many years of her marriage, because at times she felt the words had been too easy to say, and that she didn't necessarily feel married, and wasn't always sure she wanted to be married. the paper, as simple as it was, reminded her that she was in fact married, and that as such her life would never be the same as it was when she was single.
i usually don't like it when people casually throw around, "the next 5 minutes (or hour or day or week) will change your life," but the reality is that sometimes that is the case.
good post.
woah. deep.
reading this made me wonder what the next life changing step is at hand...it seems that you are in the midst of one now.
love ya
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