Well? What do you think? Is it half full or half empty?
Do you see a gray cloudy day or blue skies?
Is the task before you huge and daunting?
Or are you ready to dig in?
Of course, your perspective will be affected by where you are…
…where you’re going…
…or your current situation in life.
Timing can certainly affect your perspective.
When you have no control over certain events, you can still choose the lens through which you look.
Will this injury leave a horrible scar or provide material for a good story to tell the relatives back home?
Is this an obstacle to folding clean laundry, or the cutest kid in the world?
Do you feel the damp and see the darkness, or admire the view?
It’s not always this easy to find a happy place….
…or even the light at the end of the tunnel.
Sometimes you have to write yourself a better ending.
It helps to have someone who understands.
Who can lend a hand.
Who can help you put things in perspective.
If you can’t change your path, then do whatever the hell it takes to change your perspective.
Sometimes the glass really is half empty, but who says you can’t fill up the darn thing? In fact, fill up another one too, for a friend.
All images and words copyright 2013 Naomi Baltuck
NAOMI BALTUCK ~ is a Contributing Editor and Resident Storyteller here
at Bardo. She is a world-traveler and an award-winning writer, photographer, and story-teller whose works of fiction and nonfiction are available through Amazon HERE. Naomi presents her wonderful photo-stories – always interesting and rich with meaning and humor – at Writing Between the Lines, Life from the Writer’s POV. She also conducts workshops such as Peace Porridge (multicultural stories to promote cooperation, goodwill, and peaceful coexistence), Whispers in the Graveyard (a spellbinding array of haunting and mysterious stories), Tandem Tales, Traveling Light Around the World, and others. For more on her programs visit Naomi Baltuck.com
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So much depends on our internal spin. I love this! 🙂
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Thank you, Jamie!
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Perspective is everything! Beautiful, Naomi.
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Thank you, Rob. I appreciate your encouragement. A very happy New Year to you1
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Wonderful photographic reflection, Naomi. Thank you.
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Thank you, Victoria! Best wishes for the New Year!
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I’m trying to learn a both/and perspective…the glass is both empty and full…and empty and full become rather meaningless…the glass is. Be aware of the glass. Much more right brain (and I wasn’t raised to be right brained!).
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Hi, Scilla!
I think you must be a right/left brained person. Thanks so much for adding your unique perspective!
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Thank You, Naomi. I am particularly interested in the picture of the gravestone and mention of Kilnaboy. I know this part of the world very well, as I am originally from Connolly, not far from Ennis and have always loved Co.Clare.with its stunning coast-line ribboned by the Burren.
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