Perspective

My best friend has thumbs that are considerably shorter than most people's thumbs. When she was growing up, she started noticing that other people had longer thumbs than she did. She would think, "Oh, so-and-so has weird thumbs." She continued to see that people had different thumbs than she did and would continue to think that their thumbs were strange. Then she realized that EVERYBODY had weird thumbs. Her best friends, her family, people at school, etc. Then it dawned on her, "Oh, I'm the one with weird thumbs!"

It's interesting how a person's first inclination can be that the people around them are the ones with issues. This can continue on for a long period of time until they realize that everyone around them has all of these problems that they need to fix or change. Now they can continue to think that everyone around them has this or that wrong with them, or gain some perspective and realize that they are the ones with the problem Maybe they are the ones with weird thumbs and everyone else has normal ones. I hope that in my life my first inclination will be to "look at the man in the mirror, " as Michael Jackson would say. 

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