Put things into perspective

Luciana Moraes

6 years ago

Put things into perspective

When life events don’t go the way you envisioned put things into perspective to see a focused picture.

You know, those moments when you think the situation you are facing looks like a big monster consuming your livelihood?

When that obstacle you need to overcome seems like the highest mountain in the world to climb?

Or when the pain of your loss feels like an invisible hand ripping through your chest, squeezing your heart lifeless and pulling it out of your chest?

I had all of those feelings so many times.

Under such emotional stress, I used to feel like the world was collapsing with its full weight on my shoulders. I curled into my misery, feeling a victim of my own painful circumstances that I believed no one could understand.

Growing up, my mother told me countless times that I had to learn to look around. But I believed that comparing my problems to other people was “levelling myself from the bottom”.

What I did not realise in those days was that my ego was fed by my insecurities in such a way that it blocked my ability to feel compassion.

Then I started practising yoga and slowly its philosophy permeated every angle of my being.

Yoga influence

Fast-forward twenty years, and here I am telling you this story.

Why?

Because I wanted to share my realization of how difficult it can be to take a look inside, shuffle through our pain and fears. Even more so, is to face the fact that we are so insignificant.

When we realise that it is so liberating.

This does not mean that we are not important. On the contrary, we are a fundamental part of the Universal puzzle. However, in the grand scheme of things, we are just as important as we are small, and this, sometimes, is difficult to accept. Especially, when we tend to focus on ourselves, instead of others.

When you feel whichever form of pain, just look around. Look at your friends and family, or just turn on the news.

There is so much suffering and injustice in this world that today, when I do look around, I can only think of how blessed I am, how grateful.

Under a new compassionate light, when we put things into perspective, most of our problem just shrink into nothingness.