Perspective…a tricky thing…..

There is a saying in Chinese … ‘if we compare up, we cannot measure up, and if we compare down, we are not as bad…’ [almost literal translation]..

The point there is …do not compare!

A conversation with a cab driver today sparked a thought! Our ‘problem’ as we find it…….the degree of its dimension is really quite relative ….when compared to the loss of a dear one, money loss would seem less and when compared to the loss of many lives due to a world war / natural disaster, the loss of a dear one seems proportionally small, etc…. Sometime ago, I coined the term ‘perspect-fully’…more on this another time……

Some time ago i had shared about the little boy and his burst McD balloon……his wailing was as if the world had collapsed… As adults, we too sometimes make a big deal of a matter cos it is so big in our life at that time…. Age always helps!  Looking back, i am embarrassed by the many times i let what was an insignificant event become so humongous in my paradigm…..I guess that might be part of the rite of passage for the immature as they pass through the continuum towards maturity.

Hence it is important to always take time to reflect on the ‘problem’ at hand…… It really isn’t that big….. and the often quoted saying is worth observing, ‘Don’t sweat the small stuff’……

I suppose if i imagine myself now in the last mile of my life, what would i do differently…… I remember the good advice, ‘Live today as if it is the last day of my life…… ‘

I will, will you?