Perspectives
Everyone has their own views, opinions, and thoughts on things. Some people strongly value their opinions. Some people don’t. Every so often, we take the time to reflect upon our accomplishments, views, and recent events. I have done so recently, and it has lead me to write the following.
I was only three years old, and it was my first real perspective. In the cereal aisle at Kroger with my mother, I remember throwing a tantrum over a box of Cookie Crisps cereal. Remembering the scene, I am still embarrassed to this day of my naïve behavior. Throughout the remainder of our trip to the grocery store, I was thinking that everyone and everything was supposed to revolve around me. Even then, at the young, tender age of 3, I had still known better than to behave the way that I did. I hadn’t even considered if the cereal was bad for me, or if I just wasn’t supposed to have it. I just couldn’t take no for an answer. That was my perspective of things then, that everything was about me, and it shouldn’t be any other way.
A few years later, at the age of seven, there was an observational experience involved. I was watching a man in a wheel chair at the mall, asking someone to help him pick up a bag that he dropped. I watched as the person went off on the poor man, and the guy had only asked him to bend over and pick up the bag. The man, furious, stepped on the guy in the wheelchair’s package. I wanted to run over and help, but I was scared, so I just watched. At that very moment, as the guy almost fell over trying to pick it up himself, I realized that not all people are nice.
That was a long time ago, though. I am much older, and I have new perspectives on things. I now know that life isn’t all fun and happy, yet it isn’t gloomy and sad either. That brings me to my latest view on perspectives. This view actually is this story that I am writing. After you have matured enough to recognize your own perspectives, that becomes a part of you. You become stubborn, and content with your own ideas and views, just like when I was three. Does that mean that we all have the mentality of three-year-olds? In some ways yes, and in some ways no. Yes, because usually, once you have formulated an opinion, you usually stick with it, and don’t want to accept it any other way. No, we are not like three-year-olds though, because we have a stronger opinion, usually with more reason behind it. See, this latest perspective is one of the most logical one that I’ve had so far, and I hope that’s not going to become the last one. The point is, throughout the course of our lives, we will all have different perspectives on every perspective that we come across, and there’s no way that you can change it. It’s just human nature.
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