A Different View
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

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I am a huge fan of This Is Us, because the show's writers completely turned the paradigm of accepted TV narratives. The show seamlessly toggles back and forth between several set points in the past and the present and give us really good insight about the motivations of the characters and how their respective life events shaped their characters.
The writing seems more like a novel for its precise insights than any other TV show or movie I have ever viewed.
The casting of This Is Us is truly amazing, as the child actors look so much like the adult character actors. Because This Is Us resonates so completely with me, when I am out and about, I play games with myself and try to picture how an older person would have looked when they were younger and also try to imagine what a young person will look like when older. It is a fascinating social experiment and will never fail to keep you occupied if you are waiting for someone or something on the street or in a car.
Thank you for sharing your insightful perspective and comments; I think you may have changed the paradigm for many fellow Gothamites today.
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