Yesterday while flying to Atlanta from Baltimore a woman with a small child was ahead of me boarding the airplane. At the end of the ramp she took the boy's stroller and folded it up so it could be stowed with the luggage below, and the boy started to cry and yell "Mommy it's MY stroller don't leave it."
Children don't realize that most things are only temporary. No matter how much Mom tried to explain it wasn't until they got off the plane in Atlanta and the boy saw HIS stroller again that he understood. Children just don't have enough experience in life yet to have the proper perspective on many things.
Unfortunately, it's not only children that sometimes lack perspective. To one degree or another many of us suffer from that same problem. When we are facing a difficulty or crisis in our lives it is hard to know just how important that situation may turn out to be (or not be) in ghe grand scheme of our lives, or in 5 years. Many times what seems so critical today will be forgetten completely next week. Problems come and go in most of our lives, yet many of us tend to over react and lose perspective of the situation. I tend to believe our lives are the sum total of the choices we make and the things we do each day. Yes, sometimes situations arise that throw us a curve ball, and we cannot avoid that, but we do have a choice of how we can react to that and what we do with that curve ball. The choice is ours.
Make this a great day and remember to keep your perspective.
Steve
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