Thursday, July 8, 2010

DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE

Are you familiar with the movie “Dead Poet Society?” When I watched that movie, I had never forgotten the part where the professor there played by Robin Williams was accused of something he didn’t do. His students believed in him. In his farewell minutes, he asked them all to stand on top of their table. The students did. Then he said that at times we have to look at things in a different perspective. This can help us move on in life.

Maybe the reason why I remembered that scene was I believed in what he wanted to convey. Well, aside from the fact that I shed tears on that part hehehe. Sometimes we’re focused on just one aspect of what’s happening in our lives or one solution to our problems that when it didn’t work, our whole world crumbled like it was the end of the world for us, or there was no way out, right?

Hmmmm . . . . there are many ways to view things. Want some proof? Look at this top view picture. What is it?

Can you guess??? . . . .Hmmmm, how about this next picture?


Well, that sure is clearer, right? Now you can say that it’s an alcohol bottle. But is there a better view?


Wow! That’s much, much clearer and better! Sometimes we tend to look at things like on the top view, then we conclude based on what we see without trying to look if there’s a better way, if there’s a truth that we fail to see, if there’s another solution to the problem.

Sometimes, we take a chance and look at it on another point of view. We get a clearer version of what we see at first.

But most of the time, there is the best view that we fail to see. What view is that? God’s perspective. Yeap! God sees things differently from us. He always sees the clearer side, the beautiful side of things. That’s the view we have to search.

Life is too beautiful, yet too short for us to get stuck to the miserable side of things. It’s your choice what kind of perspective you’ll see things. But if I were you, my friend . . . . I’ll try to look at them in different perspectives until I find God’s perspective on them! This is a sure winner! Fantastic Life!
-luisadelacruz