For a long time, the word perspective was one dimensional to
me. I didn't think about it very much, or fully understand what it meant. But
after bumping into it several times lately, I've realized that it builds our
daily lives almost single-handedly.
Perspective is that lens you see the world through. Some
people may use a lens that only sees what they want it to see. Other people may
see everything clearly because they are able ignore their personal bias (their
upbringing, experiences, education, etc.) Of course, I’d love to be that last person,
but I don’t know if I’ll ever get there. And I don’t know how far I am along in
the journey to get there. But I do know some stuff. Here we go.
I know that I don’t
know much.
I know that we humans are often too short sighted to know
where we are going next when we are in the midst of something. We don’t realize
the relationships we are in the midst of building until they are noticeably
complete.
An example: I have been friends with a kid since 5th
grade. Casual friends; our conversation rarely scraping the surface. But
suddenly this year, we became a lot closer. I wonder if every encounter since 5th
grade has led up to this friendship, or if it is simply something that has
shaped up recently because of circumstance. But I do know that I wasn't thinking about
every interaction with him as a building block of sorts, it’s only looking back
now that I can imagine the progression.
How many great relationships am unknowingly building in my
life right now? Maybe the kid I sit next
to in AP History will become my best friend senior year, or maybe he won’t. We
know so little about the way the universe is spinning life into existence. But
I know nearly nothing is a coincidence. As Sherlock Holmes once said, “the
universe is rarely so lazy.”
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