Perspective

# Chapter 317

We need different experiences and different contexts in order to properly appreciate our home and norms. Sometimes we need to experience the rocking boat in order to appreciate the steady ground under our feet. Sometimes we need to get rained on at night in order to to keenly appreciate our warm dry bed. Sometimes we need to experience the constant wind and swells on the Bay in order to appreciate a still quiet moment. Sometimes we need a minor disaster on the journey there, in order to be thankful that no one was hurt nor to take for granted the effortless way we can usually move from one place to another. Sometimes we need a holiday to see how much we have been working and to make appropriate adjustments. Just how different and how major these contexts and experiences are depends on many varying factors, needs, willingness, risk ability and enthusiasm for adventure. At one point in life I was an adrenaline junkie, the bigger the risk the better, now not so much.

These contexts and experiences can range from a quick trip to the lake for fishing or boating, to camping, to trips across the States, to trips international, to living overseas. I have done them all and they all have value for resetting your understanding about the great gifts we have in life, regaining perspective about the blessings we enjoy every day and often don’t appreciate properly. Most times seeing and experiencing first hand, far outweigh the reading of words about something.