Why Does Perspective Matter??
We’re all little ants in a big world.
Like an ant, everything seems so much bigger to us than it may be to someone else. A french fry may look like a 100 story skyscraper to an ant but to us it’s nothing. To a squirrel, bird, or snail, it’s nothing.
But an ant may see it as death. Something much larger than itself that if it falls the wrong way could squash and kill it. Now, their potential fear about a french fry is valid, I mean if a skyscraper came falling on us we would all be scared too. But we still might not really be able to understand the fear because it makes no sense to us. A fry is simply food and we tend not to think too hard about it.
However, humans have many of their own “fries” in their life. They are the hypothetical fears that we are afraid will squash us and bring us to our doom, whether that be death or not. Examples of this may be failure, love, speaking our truth, starting a new business, putting yourself first, confronting your trauma, and so on.
You may think this metaphor is a stretch but it’s all in your perspective😉, we each have a different one.
Just like a fry is nothing to us speaking your truth may be nothing to a friend of yours. Or maybe the fear of failure to you is paralyzing but to your significant other it is exciting motivation.
With all of these examples, I am showing you how the same exact object or idea can be looked at in completely different ways by two or more people. This is perspective.
Perspective is a point of view, an attitude one has toward a way of regarding something. Perspectives range from person to person to the point where sometimes two matching socks may even be seen differently, for example.
No perspective is wrong, they are just different. People develop their perspectives for a reason. Our childhoods, role models, experiences, genetics, and trauma all influence the way we look at and evaluate different things in life.
This brings brilliance to the world. Why? Because it allows us to come out of our naturally egocentric childhood and discover new ideas that we may not have been able to understand or take in as a child.
In other words, perspective allows our thoughts to be challenged so that we can solidify our own beliefs and values.
However, we aren’t always open to different perspectives. We are especially closed off when we are in a state of intense emotions such as fear, anxiety, or worry.
In these instances, the only perspective or opinion that may seem accurate is that whatever you are going through is the end of the world. Although whatever you are feeling is valid and okay to feel, it puts you in a bubble if you don’t eventually work through it.
In this state, some people don’t want to hear what others have to say. When people are closed off from hearing other perspectives it keeps them in this state of denial of reality. This is because most of the time our emotions or “fries” are unlikely to yield our actual doom just like it’s not that likely for a french fry to fall on an ant and kill it.
However, that doesn’t stop us or ants from having the perspective that something is fearful. We don’t necessarily need to either. Rather, we need to be open to other perspectives that can offer us a different way of perceiving something. It can offer you insight and help you determine if you really need to be afraid of failing or if it’s actually holding you back in life.
Overall, the real reality is that the world is much bigger than our point of view even when we are so determined that it’s right or feel emotionally unable to consider other possibilities.
The fact is that we really are just a small ant in a big world. Your perspective matters but a different perspective is just around the corner. Don’t discredit or overlook it, it could lead to the answers you have been searching for.
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