Tag: Perspective

Turn Towards The Light

Achieving Goals, Happiness, Health, Success

A shadow is an absence of light. When we focus on what is not working in our lives and all of the negative things it is like we are looking at a shadow. If we change our perspective and turn towards the light our lives look very different.

We can choose what we focus on, if we try. It may require building new habits and letting old habits whither, but it is worth it. We are what we repeatedly do, so change what you do and you will feel the benefit. However, in order for the new habits to stick we have to believe that we are the kind of person who does those things.

For example, you are not quitting smoking you are someone who does not smoke. Turn your attention towards what you want, towards the light, and your life will get better.

Having Some Perspective

Happiness

When I scroll through my Facebook feed there are often the same generic quotations and pictures of family and friends showing the best bits of their lives, but the other day a picture of the Andromeda Galaxy, stating that it “is the sharpest view of the Andromeda Galaxy ever, showing more than 100 million stars!” Here is a video showing just that.

The picture blew my mind. It began zoomed in and slowly zoomed out, eventually showing the image in full. We are finding from the James Webb telescope that the number of stars in the universe are many many times more than we thought. My point is that we can get so caught up in little things in our lives, but it helps to reflect on things like the enormity of the universe to put our lives into perspective.

How We See Each Other

Happiness

It is better, in my opinion, to seek to understand other people’s point of view and to respect them, even when disagreeing with their opinion. This is to try and see all people as having good sides and bad, with good habits and bad, with good fortune and with problems.

We all, really, want to be happy and avoid pain. And if we think about the people we know, those who are our friends and those we call wife or husband, girlfriend or boyfriend, we accept these people, warts and all.  We look past any of the imperfections that they may have and we see them as beautiful people, often because of these imperfections.

Though, the way we see our partners will always be different from the way others see them, because we all see things differently, which in itself makes us all individuals. However, this capacity to see past imperfections and see beauty in others is something that we all can do, it is an ability we all share, to varying degrees.