‘Perspective is everything when you are experiencing the challenges of life.’ – Joni Eareckson Tada
When a problem or challenge happens in your life, when major life changes come along, life becomes uncertain. In fact, you may be at a total loss as to what to do next.
Gaining perspective can help. Gaining perspective means being able to see the interrelationship between what's happening within your world and what's happening outside it. It means getting a sense of where you are in the scheme of things, taking everything else into account.
If, for example, you fail an exam, perspective helps you to understand that, as difficult to manage as it is right now, the situation will change: life will continue and things will work out.
A sense of perspective often makes the difference between resisting or accepting the changes that are happening in your life. Perspective can give you a state of calm where, right now, you can rest without needing things to be different. This doesn't mean you have to resign yourself to something, to give in. It means understanding that at this moment something is what it is.
You may want things to be different in the future, but in the present moment you accept things as they are and for what they are, knowing that this too will pass.
