Each of us looks at others and the events of life through our own eyes and point of view — that is part of the human, but mistaken notion that the world revolves around us when in reality each of us is just a small part of the total world.
Can you try, really try, to see things through the eyes of another person, and if you can, would your point of view change?
By example, I wake up in the morning and look forward to a good day, but I meet someone who has a sad face and is having a hard time with the same day I am experiencing. My immediate feeling may be that I don’t want this person and her problems to spoil my day. But what if I could take a breath and try harder to understand why she is feeling that way, to realize that we are all in the same world together, that this day another person may need my help, and that on another day I may need her help and her sensitivity to my needs.
How do we become less selfish and more compassionate? How do we take the grown-up step of looking at the world through someone else’s eyes and enrichen our self-centered point of view? How do we become our noble selves?
I’d welcome your thoughts
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it’s strange that i have learned to do this looking at things through the eyes of some else too well. i do find myself lost in the numbers of people who have similar stories that i have experienced. i guess that happens when you have faced cancer more than once been unemployable for at more than 10 years and have lost your home. my husband is now unemloyed for the second time in 3 years and a woman at the unemployment office really made me think. . The face was familar it was my face even though she did not face a serious illness it was the face of the unknown fear of the future not knowing not secure in what was going to happen to her. i did tell her it would be ok even though I didn’t know if My husband and myself would be ok.
We did talk for a few minutes she seemed greatful to know she was not alone did we help i don’t know but somes times even for a momuent in time their is strength in numbers.
have a great day everyone