"I want something sweet, but there aren't any dessert-y things in the house."
Now the entire top shelf in the pantry is LOADED with sweet things but Scarlett, being 13-years-old, wasn't tall enough to see them on her own. I see them every time I open the door, but she was standing there holding the door open, staring inside, just not able to find what she was looking for. You see, her height limited her perspective and although what she wanted was right there, there wasn't any way she was going to see it unless she made a deliberate effort to change her perspective.
"Stand on your tippy toes," I told her. The two inches of height she gained by standing on her tiptoes was all she needed, she just had to make that effort.
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How many times do we want something, but because we're operating and acting from a limited perspective, fail to find it?
How many times have you told a friend to get out of a bad relationship or stop smoking or whatever else because, from your perspective, YOU could see that those things were bad?
How many times has a friend come to YOU to proffer advice and because of your limited perspective YOU thought YOU knew better (even though you realized later that maybe you didn't)?
There are things that you want, good things like dessert, or love or you fill in the blank, but maybe you just aren't finding it. You've looked in the pantry, you've asked other people for it, but there's something that you hadn't yet discovered.
You haven't discovered that although certain things you need, water, food, clothing, shelter, come from outside of you, certain other things come from WITHIN. And while all of these things need to be found, you've become so used to getting everything you need from without that you forget to look within for the others, like love.
Scarlett wouldn't have found what she wanted if she didn't make it known that she lacked. She put it out there that there was something she wanted that she wasn't able to find and therefore she received the guidance necessary.
So this blog is written in response to all the sad, crying blogs and lonely, "what do I do?" phone calls and voicemails (of which I've written a few and made some myself).
Over the past five months I've been stretching and climbing and jumping and singing and asking and thinking all in an effort to change my perspective. I've learned some things.
The reconnaissance has been done and the prescription is this:
LOVE YOURSELF!!
Don't know how? Can't find the love or whatever else you need?
CHANGE YOUR PERSPECTIVE!!
Don't know how to change your perspective?
ASK!!
Ask yourself, ask a friend, ask me. Ask the wind or your pet or the shower head. It doesn't matter who you ask, because as you ask, you'll continue to ask until you receive your answer.
In life you may hear an older person give advice or see a cliché quote on a poster that you've seen or heard a million times before, listen to it. Think about what is being said. So many times our perspectives are limited until we just make even the tiniest effort to change them.
Tiptoes aren't enough? Stand on a chair! Make the necessary adjustments and start living differently.
I wish satisfaction, fulfillment, and much love especially for YOU?
