the cat can touch the object of light and not care until it moves

Mar 31, 2011 17:59

one thing i like about myself is my no black and white, but perspective. observe the following to catch my drift.

i cannot understand in any (or most)capacity(ies) why someone would try and find a parking space close to the destination. these people which i'll call "closerpakers" will circle and square and rectangle a space (a space) more than twice. i usually don't do even one full circle. in fact, i'm convinced there is no parking up there so i park "far" away. besides, i don't like crowds. i'll walk. yes, a whole extra 4.5 minute walk. to the closeparkers i say "you don't use them, you lose them."

where perspective comes in has to do with understanding a closeparker. their "walk" *IS* the circling, the squaring, and the rectangling. we are no different in this sense, even though i still do not understand why one would want to drive around and round in traffic instead of just walk. even though i do not understand, i open my mind and negate my self. i may not understand but i can intuit or conceive or get a hint: a closeparker is not like me, but is like me in the sense that there's an extra effort involved. for me, it's walking. for them, it's circling while sitting. for me it's physical, for them mental. for both, it's exercise.

what i like about myself is that i don't judge the closeparker. i know in many life instances, people judge what is not like themselves. they say "that's stupid." but close parking and far parking are neither stupid nor smart. it depends on one's PERSPECTIVE. you like it that way and i like it this way. that simple.

yet, relationships are built or crumble based on these judgments of right and wrong when really disagreement should be accepted as easily as taste (though taste is sometimes disputed as a life or death threat). if anything, one should be glad that others are different. they offer perspective. and if there is less of that, then there is nothing.
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