Imagine a one-eyed man playing kickball. Pretty f***ing difficult – hard to kick the ball coming at you, because you can’t tell how far away it is, and right next to impossible to catch the ball flying at you. That second eye gives you the gift of perspective – to be able to see how close or far away things are, to be able put them in their proper relation to each other.

When we lack perspective, things are too TOO. Too important, too close, too critical, too, … whatever. We get hyped up, aroused, overstimulated, overemotional. Time and distance help to realign things, but during those first close moments, everything is topsy-turvy, turbulent, and theatrical. Things become elegant and impractical, like fine china. Time gets distorted; mere seconds seem like hours while they occur, but looking back entire days go by without much getting done.

The key to kickball, if I may be allowed to pontificate for a second, after having attended my first kickball scrimmage since the 1980’s, is perspective. And, pontificating further, one of the keys to living your life in the best way possible is also having perspective. I’m not saying don’t dive off the cliff blindfolded every now and then. I’m saying that keeping perspective allows you to choose the right cliff

Thoughts?