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Blog 510 – 12.30.2016
Point Of View

It is interesting that several people can see the same event or attraction and come away with completely different stories about what they saw. Our point of view is so much more that the angle we view something from for we also filter each new experience through our frame of reference which is all of our life experiences and what we choose to believe about them. It is always risky business sharing your point of view. You leave yourself open to being misunderstood, being adored, or being attacked along with a multitude of other possible reactions. The worst fear of writers is none of those as much as it is indifference or not being read at all.

Therefore it is always with a certain amount of trepidation and audacity that anyone shares an opinion either verbally or in writing. Our point of view is not the only one and it is well to consider that there are others out there. Sometimes we are so sure that our point of view is the correct and only sensible one that we can be intolerant of others. That is a mistake for several reasons. Just a couple of those reasons are that if we are open we might learn something and if we listen to others points of view we might be heard as well and be able to teach. Someone has said we only truly learn what we teach.

Like you I am hoping to share my point of view and I do not expect you or anyone to always see things exactly as I do. I have spent way too much of my allotted journey walking around in circles in the wilderness because I refused to let go of beliefs that were no longer serving me. I make a geniune effort to see the other side of any issue for I have lived long enough to have seen many things from several points of view. As a young man I thought “being right” was the most important thing. And for awhile I thought, “being left behind by science and the intellectuals might be worse. Now I think life is a journey where it is not so important which side of the road you are on, left, right, or in the middle for you can see it all from all three points of view and still miss the meaning of the journey.  Happy trails, happy tales, and don’t forget we all are here to remember something important that we might have forgotten – Who we really are.

Your friend and fellow traveler,
David White