Two of us just attended a wonderful program at Silver Lake College, Manitowoc, Wi (my Alma Mater), and it gives me pause for the many times that I have looked at something many, many times and failed to see the subtle changes or perhaps the significance of seeing something in a different light, including people, places, things and institutions!
The speaker presented photographs he had taken with his camera, numerous times showing the very same subject but the lighting, season of the year and angle were different. During the course of the presentation the speaker often said by having a "new view", we could find a "new you".
How many times have each of us given up on a cause or a person because our personal "lens", "lighting" or "angle" were not allowing us to see the way we really could see? I have been with others who will not associate with a certain other because of preconceived notions, earlier "spats", prejudice...many things. Sometimes it did not make sense to me, but I don't have to look far, I have done the same thing.
Yup, if I change my "view" of a person or a situation, see it from a different perspective, it can open me up in ways I never imagined. Wow! What could that do to each of us on many fronts? What would that be like with a "new view, a new you"?
