everyone needs a little perspective...

It is amazing what a little dose of perspective has to offer. A "mile walk in someone else's shoes" so to speak. yesterday was not a good day. One of those that just starts off wrong, ya know? Grouchy. Late. hungry, no good food in the pantry. Work was a B!+*h- reports and stats and UGH!! I burned dinner, I slammed my foot in the door because my dog tried to run out. I even realized when putting on my Pjs that I had worn my undies inside out all day. I felt lonely and defeated. Then, the next day I went and visited my friend who was at the hospital with her daughter. The moment I sat down I realized how ungrateful I am. Here is a beautiful young woman who is spending the better part of a summer month in a hospital bed fighting an incurable disease. Her mother, my very dear friend, spends night after night on a pull out hospital bed in the room to be there for her daughter. Funny how my day just didn't seem so bad after all. PERSPECTIVE.

So the next time that you are complaining about the sweltering heat in Augusta maybe we could just throw a little bit of that energy we are using up to complain to maybe think about our troops who are in Iraq to keep us safe in full gear in the 120 degree heat away from their families and friends. PERSPECTIVE.

Perhaps the next time we see a homeless person in the street we can think about how fortunate we are and how many things that we have and can offer to the needy. Think how easily that could be us. These are not easy times. There could be many circumstances in which we find ourselves turned out on the street. PERSPECTIVE.

When we see the commercials on TV with the starving children do not think of them as begging us for money. Picture their mothers and fathers and how they feel that they cannot provide for their babies. Think of your own children or nieces and nephews and what you would do to make sure that they have food in their bellies and clean water to drink. How much do we take vaccinations for granted? These babies are not dying of cancer. They are dying of starvation and dehydration and diarrhea because of unsanitary drinking water. They are not asking for playstations and $150 sneakers. They are asking for rice and water and textbooks and pencils. PERSPECTIVE.

It is amazing what a new light a different perspective gives to things. Think of a kaleidoscope that you played with as a child. Remember how one turn of it would move the colored pieces and the whole design would change. That, my friends, is how a perspective, even one ever so slightly different, can change your view on the world.