Window Cleaning Time

How's your view?

Even at my point in life I still find myself at times having to slow down so I can digest the information before me.  It’s easy to jump to conclusions without having the whole picture or all the facts.  If a person has a conscience you will later find yourself agonizing over things you said or did that you can’t take back. 

When raising your own family you can almost always use the final argument “because I said so.”  Anytime I was addressing my children’s safety and/or health and unable to come up with an argument for why they couldn’t or shouldn’t do something, because I said so was the argument that ended all arguments on my side of the ledger. Whether I get the full picture are not health and safety are foremost and I tend to err on the side of safety.

At some time or another we probably all heard the old saying about seeing the world through “rose colored glasses.”

Meaning: If someone sees things through rose colored glasses, they see things as being better than they really are.

For example:

• Tina
  sees things through rose-colored glasses, so when things aren't going very well, she won't do anything to improve the situation.
  
  
• If you have the courage and maturity to see things as they really are, you'll no longer need to see things through rose-colored glasses. ~ English Club

Negativity on the other hand is the art of finding flaws in all things.  Negative people are not fun to be around.  Whenever you engage a negative person on purpose or accidentally they will almost always hijack a conversation and take it in a negative direction.  Eventually, you and your social gathering will try hard to avoid a known negative individual.

Make sure you are seeing any and all situations clearly.

·       A young couple moves into a new neighborhood. The next morning while they are eating breakfast, the young woman sees her neighbor hanging the wash outside. "That laundry is not very clean; she doesn't know how to wash correctly. Perhaps she needs better laundry soap. “Her husband looks on, remaining silent. Every time her neighbor hangs her wash to dry, the young woman makes the same comments. A month later, the woman is surprised to see a nice clean wash on the line and says to her husband: "Look, she's finally learned how to wash correctly. I wonder who taught her this. "

·       The husband replies, "I got up early this morning and cleaned our windows." And so it is with life... What we see when watching others depends on the clarity of the window through which we look. ~ Author unknown

Negativity almost always hinders people, it's just viscerally unpleasant to be around someone who's injecting unpleasant emotions and vibes into every conversation. It's not that their points are never valid, but it wears people down to always be subjected to that perspective. Let’s try to always look on the bright side of things.  Start with a good attitude and make sure that you looking through the right prism.  The best is yet to come……