Someone, Somwhere, is DREAMING of your Struggle
“And those who were seen dancing, were thought to be crazy, by those who could not hear the music.” Friedrich Nietzsche
Master the ability to widen your view, and your life improves…instantly.
Show someone a new perspective, and you have the power to change their lives…instantly.
Perspective, is a super-power. And it is instantly available to all of us, always.
Generally speaking, for anything that we might bemoan, there is someone, somewhere, dreaming of that struggle. Here I offer you some examples on this fine New Year’s morning. You know…for perspective.
I don’t have enough money.
The average annual income for a person in India, is $616.
I don’t have a big enough house.
Currently, there are approximately 553,742 homeless people…and that’s in America.
I want a nicer car.
For Nichole Keyes, a 28-year-old single mother of three young children, landing a job as a warehouse picker in Scranton, Pennsylvania, proved difficult enough. But that was only half the battle — getting to work was the other.
Keyes’ day has her waking up at 4 in the morning. At 5, she wakes her kids (ages 2, 4, and 6), and gets them ready for school. She then walks a half-hour to downtown Scranton with her three kids by her side, recently in freezing temperatures that make her littlest one shiver. That’s just to get to the first of two daycare centers. She takes a bus to get to the second one.
Keyes then rushes to her job as a warehouse picker for a supplier of horse-riding gear. Sometimes, if the bus is running late, she has to take a taxi, which sets her back financially.
“I’m a single mom of three kids recently separated from my husband,” Keyes told Business Insider. “It’s tough. I haven’t been working 40 hours. There’s not enough money to go around, so just getting transportation is a big deal.”
My clothes are out of style. I need some new kicks.
“In Ghana, tens of thousands of children walk barefoot everyday…contracting diseases such as malaria, cellulitis and guinea worm.”
https://pulitzercenter.org/project/africa-ghana-poverty-diseases-health
My internet is too slow.
Over 1.2 Billion (with a B) people on this planet, live without electricity.
https://mashable.com/2017/09/15/one-billion-people-dont-have-access-to-electricity/#E0ZU4a0y8Oqx
My water pressure was low in the shower this morning.
The lack of proper sanitation facilities in Nepal lends itself to 30 percent of the population practicing open defecation.
I need to lose 20 pounds.
Approximately 3.1 million children die from undernutrition each year (UNICEF, 2018a). Hunger and undernutrition contribute to more than half of global child deaths, as undernutrition can make children more vulnerable to illness and exacerbate disease (UNICEF, 2018a).
https://www.worldhunger.org/world-child-hunger-facts/
Put things in perspective. Be grateful. Push forward with a better attitude and more determination to make each day count.
I know I’m trying…
