perspective is everything.

Something that I think about often, probably would have talked about it here and there in my previous dials.

The world is such a big place.

8 billion people. 8 billion lives. 8 billion experiences.

8 billion definitions of life, itself.

8 billion definitions of the same word.

Fascinating isn’t it?

The same word ‘Love’ holds such an extreme difference in meaning to two different people.

I’m just trying to give you a glimpse of how the same thing, sometimes the same EXACT incident can have very different effects on different people.

I have come across many quotes on perspective that has made me think, here are three of them.

Story-telling is one of the timeless pieces of skills transferred from generation to generation.

Way before any sort of entertainment existed, the tales of great kings and generals, ghosts and spirits, gods and demons, were all recited in and around camp-lit fires for centuries.

In the modern-day, the stories we tell to our friends and family about our day-to-day are merely our version of the events that occurred, not the truth.

Because the truth varies from person to person.

I’m sure you are aware of the saying: ‘There are two sides to every story.’

Wrong. There are three.

1. Person A’s interpretation

2. Person B’s interpretation, and

3. The absolute truth.

The absolute truth of what truly happened is the story in it’s rawest form.

Unclouded by emotion, reasoning or judgment, it is pure. It is exactly what transpired.

You hear the same breakup story told by two lovers, where both stories from both people are:

1. sad, and

2. conclude that the other person was the one to blame

How is that possible? The same incident, happening to two people, but two VERY different stories.

It is because we are humans.

We are emotional beings.

Our stories are naturally molded and shaped by the emotions that we experience during the events when they happened.

Sad romantic stories, happy endings.

So many misunderstandings in the world, where people often just go along with their side of the story and to hell with it.

So many relationships between people could be saved if people would simply take the time to ask:

‘What else could this mean?’

Think about it.

Think of your wildest dreams. (Shout out T Swift)

Someone out there is probably living it or has lived it.

You think it’s crazy to have to travel 20km a day for something like water and food.

While they think it’s crazy that people can have the freedom to study whatever they want.

It’s really that simple: everything is perspective.

One thing I always say to myself:

It’s never as bad as it looks, and it’s never as good as it seems.

The same thing could be what makes us, but also what breaks us.

Recount the last time you consoled a crying friend, how did that make you feel?

Do you put yourself in their shoes?

Do you actually try and understand what it would feel if the same thing were to happen to you?

Imagine there’s a Ferrari parked near a store.

You (like most of us) probably think*,*

oh must’ve been born rich’

‘daddy’s money’

‘must’ve got lucky’

It’s fine, feel free to admit these thoughts do cross our mind.

It’s so easy to pass judgment in that split second, ‘cause it has no consequences!

It is soooo easy to pass off on people’s achievements, by attributing them to luck or fate or whatever.

They don’t know the guy probably had to work 14 hours a day, trying to make it work for years, without any certainty it would work.

They don’t see the days where it’s dark, and the nights where it’s light.

People say he/she is an overnight success.

But what they don’t see is the 15 years of work to get to that one night.

There is always a rainbow after a storm, and the smell of the earthly soil is pleasant just before one.

So, always try to see the positives.

Weights hold us down, but weights also make us stronger.

It’s all about perspective.

Like I always say,

Lessons, not Losses.

Have a wonderful week, and Godspeed.