Perspective

Funny old thing, life.

Consider those moments of extreme stress or joy in your situation versus the situation at large and you’ll see what I mean.

You might live in a nice upscale neighborhood, pour yourself a glass of fresh juice, turn the AC up since it’s going to be a hot day, meet loved ones for brunch.  Yet a few miles away a single mom with five kids looks at her light bill for the fifth time and knows she doesn’t have enough to keep the electric company from turning off her lights the next day.

When you go through some stressful situation or when you’re sick that while you feel miserable out in the world someone is kissing on a moonlit bridge over some river.  elsewhere a young person gets their first car or another person discovers their gift for playing music.  During your moment of personal hell the world keeps going.

Conversely during those moments of joy when things seem to be going so right for you that elsewhere someone hasn’t eaten for days and probably wont tonight.  A family watches helplessly as a loved one slowly slips deeper into illness and slowly dies.  During your moment of bliss the world keeps going,

In some far off land two peoples that have been enemies for untold centuries plan the next round of atrocities that they will commit upon each other.  Nothing has changed and nothing will change in their lifetimes.  In some other land several different peoples plan and gather to celebrate their cultures and exchange ideas.  The mixing of ideas and cultures brings about profound changes and creates a new culture.

Sitting quietly by observing it all, the trees add one more layer of bark, mountains erode a quarter of a millimeter, continents creep along their paths set eons ago, a mass of molten hot rock churns and spins deep inside the planet.  Another thousand or so tons of hydrogen converts to helium in the blink of an eye deep inside the sun.  None of them pay any mind to the little monkeys.