Perspective is a funny thing. Depending on your day, mood and surroundings, your perspective can change, even. One day you can look at a glass and say "this is half full" then the next day see the same glass, in the same exact condition and say "this glass is half empty". So many things can effect our perspective. The funny thing about perspective, is it is our own. We own it. We decide how we will perceive something and how we will react to that perception.
When disappointments in life happen, it is hard to see the good. It is hard to pull yourself out of that funk and see that everything happens for a reason. It is hard to find a reason to be happy. It is all your perspective and sometimes you are so close to the situation to see that, even though something hurts at the moment, that the pain will ease. That situation, helps you be the person you will become. It helps you deal with things, you may not have wanted to deal with but had too. Life is full of disappointments, and life also teaches you how to deal with them, if you step back and get perspective in a slightly different light.
I know for me personally, I would not be who I am, had I not gone through disappointments and learned how to overcome them. Things I have had to deal with have taught me patience, love, forgiveness, not to sweat the small stuff, to smile more, how to make me happy, how not to vent (venting is bad for me, it makes me relive things over and over again.... and that is no good), and more many many more lessons. My favorite lesson is how to make me happy. Yes I have my bad days, but I also have learned to recognize those bad days and how to pull myself out of those days. It breaks my heart to see friends go through life's disappointments and not be able to pull themselves out, not to see the bigger picture. I want to help I want to make things right, but I have to be patient and just be there for them as they learn how to pull themselves out with a new perspective on their situation.
Everything comes back to perception, reaction and you. Change your perception and reaction and you change you and your outlook on life. Good luck, as it is a difficult journey but also worth trying!
"Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough”
― Oprah Winfrey
“What you see and what you hear depends a great deal on where you are standing. It also depends on what sort of person you are.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Magician's Nephew
“Life is 10 percent what you make it
and 90 percent how you take it.”
― Irving Berlin
“Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change.”
― Wayne W. Dyer
“To change ourselves effectively, we first had to change our perceptions.”
― Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
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