Destination Clearwater
Destination Clearwater: Waterbourne Perspective
You have to see how big it is to get how small you are
Perspective means everything. We, as humans, get easily overwhelmed by life’s smallness. Use me as an example: this spring I finished my Master’s degree in Florida Studies. “Finishing” included writing and defending a thesis that stretched to almost 300 pages as well as taking four comprehensive exams on all my coursework, all while continuing to work full time at a host of writing jobs. While completing this opus, I stopped going to the gym. I stopped eating well. I stopped doing anything not directly related to earning money and finishing my degree. I lived in triage, swatting as they came at curveballs that come as a natural progression of life. In short, I lost all sense of perspective about what mattered to me. I know now that the …
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Cathy Salustri
8:44 pm on Friday, May 18, 2012
Thanks, Bob. more ›