Life is all about perspective
There’s
always a spot for everyone in this world, there’s always a person or something
for everyone in this world. The world has been designed to accommodate everyone
regardless of where you are, who you are, your pedigree, or what people, and society think you are. It’s like a big cake that everyone has a piece to take
a bite. We are not designed to fit in or to identify ourselves with current,
seasonal, or circumstantial situations, but we can adjust. Adjustment doesn’t
mean fitting in. To adjust is to adapt to a change or be in alignment with the
season. Adjustment is like getting used to wearing heavy clothing during the
cold season after getting used to wearing light clothes during the warm season. Or maybe understanding the culture of the new neighborhood you just
moved in. To fit in on the other hand is to disguise yourself as somebody
else other than you, or to be part of what you don’t like or are not designed
to be. It’s like using fake credentials to secure a position in a place where
you don’t belong. Remember that what is birthed in deception must be maintained
in deception. Lying is easy but what I came to realize is that a deceiver
forgets the deception easier than the one being deceived. Deception is like a
short-term solution for a long-term problem or like solving a legitimate
problem illegitimately.
We are all designed to lead a purposeful life that can be realized only when we find our
right spot because yes, it exists. Everyone has a unique purpose meaning that everyone has a spot. Our goal is to discover who we are, and our purpose and
find the right spot.
We are
currently living in a world where we have people working in jobs that they are
not purposed to be or even qualified to do but because it pays well and it’s kind of comfortable according to the current standards, they tend to think that that’s
where they belong. Same as students choosing careers influenced by wrong
metrics that jeopardize their identity in the long run. Sometimes society says
that certain careers are ideal making some students succumb to the pressure
and end up cheating in exams just to fit in or enter where they don’t belong.
This explains most of our problems in this world. We have people in power who
faked their way into positions and prevented the authentic ones who deserved
the positions to be there because of wrong reasons influenced by wrong
perspectives. How? You may ask, you see, some people see power as prestige
while others see it as a tool to change the world. Some see it as a tool for
self-aggrandizement but others see it as a voice to the vulnerable. Some see it
as an opportunity to loot public funds and enrich themselves and their families
while others see it as an opportunity to create jobs for millions of skilled
unemployed individuals. It’s all about perspective.
Perspective
is influenced by how we program our minds to think. The prerequisite of the
wrong perspective can be a result of being in the wrong place or defining
ourselves through the lens of comparison. A comparison should only be applied
to things and not people. Comparison is the root of the identity crisis. Things
change, tastes and preferences change, seasons change but who we are cannot be
changed save for adjusting. You can move from one nation to another, move from
one continent to another, switch citizenship, speak foreign languages, and
change names but you can’t run away from your true identity, because with time
it will still pop up and surprise you. You can’t change who you are. A fake product and a genuine
one can only be distinguished through the test of time. There’s no way a lion
can be a dog. You can take it from the wild, domesticate it, feed it, or pet
it, but at the end of the day it will adapt yes but it’s still a lion. It can’t
start barking no matter how many times you teach it, because it was designed to
roar and not to bark. After all, it’s a lion and not a dog.
We are
all gifted, talented, and skilled in different ways. A soccer player on a
tennis field may look less skilled and vice versa. In the same context, what a
soccer player sees when he/she sees a ball and a pitch is not the same as what
a tennis player sees when looking at the same and vice versa. Also, just like a
singer and an instrumentalist when listening to music and you ask both of them
what they have heard you’ll hear different answers, because of how they see
things and hear things differently. T.D. Jakes said in his book “It is an
epitome of arrogance to approach problem-solving by elevating one perspective
over another.” One man’s meat is another man’s poison, what person A sees is
not the same as what person B sees. It’s all about perspective.
We can
never live a purposeful life unless we learn how to align our perspectives with
our true identities. They say that failing doesn’t make you a failure. Failure
inspires winners and defeats losers. An affliction can be turned from being a
liability to an asset, it’s all about perspective. What looks like trash can be
seen as a treasure from a different dimension. It’s all about perspective.
In the
business world what people call a problem is a business because business is about
problem-solving. Invention is a product of the existence of a problem and
people with the right perspectives that are in alignment with their abilities.
It’s all about perspective
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