Perspective is Always Unique to You
Only you can ever know your head, heart, and soul.
How you view life, the universe, and everything is unique. And I mean unique to you, and you alone. Yet it’s mind-numbing and incomprehensible to truly grasp what that means: there are around 8,000,000,000 (8 billion) unique, one-of-a-kind perspectives out there.
Because of this truth, we find ourselves frequently in disagreement. I see the world this way; how in the hell do you see it that way? From our unique perspectives, we formulate our beliefs and values and apply them to this, that, and the other thing.
This can lead to some serious crazy-making between people. But it can also lead to making yourself nuts when you are striving for growth and change and need to alter beliefs and values to get there.
Some people will tell you that you need to learn to agree to disagree. While that can be useful sometimes, it’s often misrepresented. You can have differences of opinion to a point, but when another’s actions cause harm, there can and will be consequences.
It’s important to recognize that your perspective is unique to you because doing so can help you better navigate the world.
You control only you
One of the most infuriating things about the world today is how little you and I can do about it. Most of what we can do involves largely insignificant – but not unimportant – actions like sharing what we know, voting, boycotting, protesting, and so on. But there isn’t a damned thing you can do to make anyone else change their perspective.
You can influence, cajole, educate, opinionate, argue, fight, and on and on. However, if the other person isn’t open to changing their mind, they won’t. Even when you have logic and reason on your side, they will cling to their perspective like a life preserver in the middle of a stormy sea.
It would be great if people were more open to inclusivity, logic, reason, and awareness. But because of their unique perspective, they likely think it would be great if we were more open to opinion, and following the pack to keep from rocking the boat. But just as I’m not about to change my beliefs, they aren’t about to change their beliefs about their perspective.
I can spend hours trying to argue the points that matter to me. Or, I can recognize that I can’t control anyone else’s thoughts, feelings, intentions, approaches, actions, beliefs, or values – and shift my energy accordingly.
What do I mean? I mean sharing my thoughts, offering ideas, and doing work to influence – but starting with being the best me that I can be. Striving to be a good example and a beacon in some often-distressing darkness.
Because when all is said and done, I only control my life experience.
Perspective is never fully shared
The collective consciousness of any given society imperfectly shares perspectives. While we can mostly agree that the sky is blue and grass is green, some people think the Earth is flat, country “X” is better than nation “Y”, and on and on.
Nothing is set in stone. Nobody’s perspective is utterly identical. This can be true for big things like heady political topics and small things, like the shade of a given color.
Yet people will fight tooth and nail to get others on the same page. Then, when people are on the same page but not necessarily the same sentence, they continue to push and get upset with imperfect allies.
For example, I support a woman’s right to choose her own body autonomy and a transgender person’s right to exist and have equal freedoms to everyone else. But, as a cisgender male, my perspective is outside of their experience because I’m not a woman or transgender person. So, while I am an ally, because of my different perspective, I’m an imperfect ally.
This brings us to an important truth: We never fully share perspective, no matter the topic. But that doesn’t mean we can’t work together to try to get more people on the same page. We might all be on the same stormy seas, but everyone’s boat is unique and different. Some have created flotillas to hold together, but they are still made of unique perspectives.
Why does this matter?
You choose where to put your time and energy
I can’t make you see the world the way I do. And, for all the ways that I believe my perspective is a good one, an open and inclusive one, it’s flawed. There’s room for growth, for change, and the like. I’m willing to apply logic and reason (from my perspective of them) to change.
But change is terrifying. That fear gets weaponized by business leaders, politicians, influencers, and others, to disempower. If you don’t believe in your power to impact change and make the world a better place, then you are disempowered.
It’s important to be aware of the news of the world. But it’s also important to recognize that your perspective is unique to you, just as everyone else’s is unique to them. Ergo, you get to choose if you want to give your precious time and attention to things you can’t control. Or work on what you can and do.
You are the only one in your head, heart, and soul. Only you know what you’re thinking, what and how you’re feeling, your intentions, the positivity or negativity of your approach, and your actions. More importantly, you alone can choose to change any of these.
I believe that being empowered is all about making your own choices and decisions and being as true to yourself as you can. When you do that, it can and will inspire and influence others to do the same. It might be subtle, and you might not see it. But that doesn’t make it any less important or effective.
Who knows what you can learn when you stop fighting what you can’t change by recognizing the individuality of perspective?
Understanding that your perspective is unique to you isn’t hard
It’s all about practicing active conscious awareness (mindfulness) of your thoughts, feelings, intentions, and the positivity or negativity of your approach to direct your actions.
Recognizing and acknowledging that perspective is always unique to you opens you to better choices and decisions to be who, what, where, how, and why you desire to be. This is not a one-time-only operation; it requires ongoing action. Knowing, by recognizing and acknowledging that your perspective is unique to you, you can look into your subconscious to better recognize your beliefs, values, and habits, and change them if you desire.
This empowers you. When you’re empowered, that can, in turn, empower others around you. That’s why I share these weekly posts with you.
Consciously choosing your approach to life towards positivity or negativity — from the vast cylinder that exists between them — shifts life in ways that open you to more potential, possibility, and the like. From there, you can recognize, explore, and share where you are between the extremes and how that impacts you in the here and now.
The more aware you are of yourself in the present, the better you can choose and decide what, how, and why your life experiences will be. When you empower yourself, it can spread to those around you and empower them, too. That is an amazing conduit to help reason overcome fear in the collective consciousness.
Thank you for coming along on this journey.
This is the six-hundred-forty-eighth (648) entry of my Positivity series. I hope that these weekly messages might help spread positive energy for everyone. Feel free to share, reblog, and spread the positivity.
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Recognizing and acknowledging that perspective is always unique to you opens you to better choices and decisions to be who, what, where, how, and why you desire to be. This is not a one-time-only operation; it requires ongoing action. Yet it makes you the most authentic and genuine you that you can be, and that’s utterly worthwhile.
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