Understanding perspectives

One of the things I like about my drive to DC on 95 is catching a glimpse of this temple just outside the beltway. As you are coming in from the north, it suddenly looms in front of you, and you think it is dead ahead. Then as you follow the curve of the road, it feels like it is going to be on your left. Then, once you get even closer, you realize it is actually going to be on the right.

I have always been tickled by that, how our perceptions can be so easily manipulated, and that true understanding only becomes clear as we draw near.  Life is filled with such incidences where we feel we know something or expect something just by a precursory glance, but then as we approach closer to the subject, study it, we find our objectives altered.

So... be open to the fact that our perspectives can be changed. Understand that misunderstandings can occurred simply because there is so much to understand - about people, about lives. Our realities shift based upon where we stand, where we are along the journey. What is real to us at a moment in time can be different to the next.  Remember that when speaking with others about their realities.