Changing Perspective

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Changing our perspective is often one of the most difficult tasks we face. We are often so busy we don't have time to stop and think about anything from an angle other than the one we've already got set in our minds.

The New World Dictionary defines perspective as a way of regarding situations, facts, etc, and judging their relative importance . I see our society more and more as judging relative importance and this generally involves ranking our own importance/views/etc. above those of others. We've lost our ability to respect and value differing opinions. But isn't that what makes our world so fascinating? Thank goodness, we aren't all the same. How dull would that be?

The Middle English origin of the word is the past participle stem of perspicere to look at closely . I prefer this definition as it really tells you that you need to pay attention at look at the various aspects. In order to look at something closely you must look up/down, left/right, close/far and every other way possible.