How often do you change your fixed perception of a situation in a significant way?

It happened to me a number of years ago when I saw the musical Wicked for the first time. It was literally life changing.

There is a well established, pretty universally accepted "norm" and it is shattered. Never looked at The Wizard of Oz the same again.

Recently, I had a similar experience with the film, "I, Tonya." To see things from her perspective, very enlightening.

Sonia sent me a copy of a letter (fiction) from the Baroness Schraeder about her cancelled nuptials to Captain Von Trapp. Another POV, very illuminating and humorous.

Finally, a couple of weeks ago a regular "blogger commenter" whom I always seem to be at odds with, was very helpful to another blogger. Without naming names its hard to explain how profoundly positively this affected me, but it did.

These days in particular, as my wife recently said to me when I was complaining about how different I was from the others in a group, "perhaps you would be better served to think about your similarities rather than your differences."

Slowly but surely I am learning compassion and that is a necessary gift in 2018.

Share our similarities, celebrate our differences. - M. Scott Peck