I have this happen to me all the time:
Something beautiful and simple to me is described as dangerous insanity by
someone else.
Or something I see as dangerous and insane is defended as beautiful and simple
by someone else.
Here is a YouTube example: (Watch them both or you are only seeing 1 perspective.)
Maybe this is why “conservatives” and “liberals” can live in
the same world and never see the same issue the same way.
Hey I’m doing something clever and beautiful with money and real estate!
No you're not! You are destabilizing the housing market and making me ill.
Hey I’m doing something clever and beautiful to save the
environment.
No you're not! You are destabilizing my business and my way of life and making me ill.
Perspective means everything in how you instinctively
describe things in your world.
What we need are ways to acknowledge the different
perspectives people bring to the table and still manage to get worthwhile
things done. MSNBC vs FOX NEWS is not
helping. Republicans vs Democrats is not
helping. Liberals vs Conservatives is
not helping. We are just making each
other ill.
I don’t have any grand solutions to the world’s
problems. But I think we are all crazy
if we keep having the same arguments over and over and expect a different
result this time.
Think about it next time you are sure you are doing or
defending some beautiful thing.
Think about it next time you feel ill listening to someone
else’s defense of their crazy thing.
We are all dancers.
But we are all someone else’s hula hoop as well.
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