Perspective!

I read her post & it begins to read: I now gain perspective.

Perspective is a strange thing, it is an individual point of view on a situation; a mental evaluation of sorts. It can also be ever-changing just like the seasons, or the flow of a tide.

I too have had a change of perspective today. My opinion on a certain situation has been altered & quite suprisingly so. It is as though this change in feeling has been carried in on the Westerly winds that blow through the city today. Whilst visibility has been reduced by a freakish red dust storm; I have somehow found a new clarity in my thought processes with regard to another situation.

I want to shake them all! Shake sense into their beings! It has been said by many people, many times before but the essence of these 4 short words ring true. "Life is too short "

A new television series is about to begin on TV in a few short weeks. It is about seeing your life 6 months into the future...flashforwarding into a future that is yet to happen. This could be considered a curse or a blessing depending on what it is you see.

If the terrible event that occured yesterday could have been forcast.... I wonder to myself how differently things may have been. Kinder words would have been spoken, different decisions would have been made. I believe that a lot of people live with the misconception that nothing will ever happen to them. That they will have an abundance of tomorrows. Sadly this is not true to every person. One day each one of us will reach our last today & there will be no more tomorrows. This is exactly the reason why we need to monitor ourselves, think before we speak & act.

I have today! I am here right now! I have the opportunity to make a decision about how I am going to react to this event & be true to who I am as a kind & empahtetic human being. I have decided not to let the opinion or the perspective of another curb by instincts to do what I believe to be right!