Shake It Up With Perspective
My last entry, about Google and their threat to move out of China, began with the words "news is coming out about..." Well at the same time news was coming out about another event - the earthquake in Haiti. When events like this happen I always think about how we need to use perspective when judging events in life. However we, well I anyway, rarely use perspective. We tend to think that our plight is terrible. The furnace that needed to be replaced. Will that ice dam on the roof cause water damage this spring? What about that sump pump - will it work? That noisy bathroom fan. What a joke. We have nothing substantive to complain about in our lives...if perspective is used. So, with some perspective, I will say that I am among the luckiest person in the world. I live in Canada. A first-world, rich, well-off, society with a solid safety net. I have a house, two healthy children and an amazing wife. I now live in a city that it not prone to any serious natural dangers...