A Little More About Perspective

I was in Walgreen’s the other night listening to a customer and the cashier banter about the Jazz. They were both friendly and enjoyable to be around. The customer offered to carry my toothpaste, and whatever else I got free that night, out to my car. As we were leaving, the cashier said, “I haven’t been able to keep up on the playoffs that much this year, but I’m moving to Logan and won’t have such a stressful job so I’ll get to watch more games.”

As we walked to my car, I said, “How stressful do you think her job is, she works at Walgreen’s?”

He said, “I always look at it this way: You don’t know what’s going on behind the scenes. You never know, she might have a power hungry boss that makes her life miserable.”

Oh, man! SMACKDOWN. And I deserved it.

I’ve been surrounded by perspective lately and you’d think it would soak in and I’d drop the judgmental chip on my shoulder. I read a book titled, The Noticer, by Andy Andrews. Read it! (Ask me, and I’ll let you borrow it.) I’ve been thinking a lot about one of the concepts in the book. “What one thing would people change about you if they could?” Try to answer that! I think there is probably only one thing that people like about me and about a bazillion things they’d change. I’m not really sure where to start changing. The thought of it overwhelms me.