Perspective

I used to be a carefree person. As I grow up I tend to give over emotional responds over things that I don’t agree with. I do freak out for some matters and then realize it is wrong for me to do that after sometimes, mostly when someone point out my mistake. I guess it is a process of growing up.

I realize that life is not just about looking at the world from your own perspective. Each and every one of us have our own perspective of viewing the world. Own environment, the person we came across in life, the books we read, the movies we watch, the experiences we went through in life, our emotions and reactions all building, changing and moulding our perspective.

I searched for the answers to various questions via Google. One of the topic I searched today is about finding purpose of life. I came across a website : http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/11/04/hunter-s-thomspon-letters-of-note-advice/

There was a particular quotation that attracted me a lot. Here it is:

Every man is the sum total of his reactions to experience. As your experiences differ and multiply, you become a different man, and hence your perspective changes. This goes on and on. Every reaction is a learning process; every significant experience alters your perspective.

It is true. It applies to everybody.

A teenage boy’s perspective of freedom could be slightly different from his parents’ perspective. His parents could have heard of harms and danger of hanging out late night. They might have experience something bad themselves. This creates a perspective to them that hanging out late night is not good. However the boy experience entertained night environment, feeling free and secured when he is with his friends, plus he had not face dangerous situations yet. Hence it could be hard for him to understand his parents’ perspective. Both the parents and the boy are not having wrong perspective. They are having different perspective. Both of them should try to explore the cause of the different perspective rather than blaming each other.