We can live in our own world where we think our opinion is the only opinion. Then something can happen that jolts us into needing to view life, a situation with a different perspective. Like the tulips in an evergreen tree. Done by my granddaughter while playing. They do not belong there but somehow it works! A baby crawls on the floor and looks up. Have you ever lie on the floor like a baby and look up! A different perspective of the room. Working in a hospital it is always important to try to imagine or feel what it is like to be a patient. "That person in room 12 is so crabby." Is the person in pain, missing loved ones, just fed up with being sick? Stopping to imagine another perspective can help to find solutions to problems. We can become stuck, with blinders on our eyes, not seeing from side to side. Freeing ourselves from the need to be right to finding a middle ground can be very enlightening. Just listening to someone and not trying to have the perfect response can bring a different perspective to that person too. Have you ever stopped and put your view aside to try to grasp another's? Have you looked at all the sides of a situation and found a different solution than you had initially?
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