I was driving back from my Dad’s the other day.
Because the little back lane we normally use was flooded, I went through town.
Drove past where the ‘lower site’ of my Senior school used to be.
They expanded what was ‘upper site’ 21 years ago and there’s been houses on ‘lower site’ ever since.
Confusingly, lower site was on top of the hill and upper at the bottom.
I digress.
I started thinking about the layout of lower site and some of the classrooms I had lessons in there.
And I remembered an Art lesson with Mr. Tkacz.
—– As an aside I had to message a Polish friend for the name as I couldn’t think how it was actually spelt. It’s pronounced ‘t-catch’ ——
He was teaching us about ‘perspective’.
He was, of course, talking about the Oxford Dictionary’s first definition – “the art of representing three-dimensional objects on a two-dimensional surface so as to give the right impression of their height, width, depth, and position in relation to each other”
But I’m more interested in the second definition – “a particular attitude towards or way of regarding something; a point of view”
Something that it’s easy to miss that we have in many situations.
It’s easy to forget that our point of view is just that and not the the cast-iron fact that we might tell ourselves it is.
And that our perspectives often change over time.
From my experience, people don’t get the body and energy levels they desire when anything really changes about their busyness levels, exercise and food adjustments.
What changes is how they see those things.
Their perspective about them.
A paradigm shift.
What needs to be done won’t change.
But our “attitude towards or way of regarding” it can.
Much love,
Jon ‘I once walked into the glass door at the bottom of the art room steps’ Hall
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