Beyond Brakelights

Changing your perspective changes you as well. Think about traffic. There's really nothing pretty about it on the street level. Those burning red lights all around, the dizzying back and forth and stop and start. It all gets to you eventually and the frustration builds.  

But ride an elevator 20 stories above that very same street and suddenly that string of red peacefully compliments the city's other hues. And instead of the horns, grinding brakes and muffled curses heard before, a bearable instrumental version of "Let It Be" serves as the backdrop. Not great. Not bad, either. And strangely, the song title somehow fits the moment.   

If only we could change our perspective so easily. In the throes of everyday living, it's hard to do so. Perceptions are cemented in our head space. Maybe it's how we see other people. People who may look or speak differently than us in that other car. 

Or situations. It might be the road you've been down a million times. Yet one day a flat tire forces you to get out at a spot where you discover a creek you never knew existed. 

Or ourselves. That person in the mirror will look a lot like the person in the mirror tomorrow. Sure, it takes a lot of work and gallons of therapy to notice changes but there can still be noticed in due time.  

So take yourself out and change your perspective some time. Chances are you will learn to see things differently.