Recently I have gained a ton of perspective. There have been people in my life, maybe not even people I know very well, but they have had rough things happen. People have died, people have been arrested, people live in third worlds where their problems are real. 

I on the other hand, I have job, an apartment, a cat, people who love me. I’m pretty well off right now. Yet I still have wants.

Having wants isn’t exactly a crime. I don’t and shouldn’t feel guilty for being well off in life. 

However, I wonder if people whom I work with truly take time to think about how great their lives are, I doubt it, and possibly I think they take things for granted. We fly around the world and at my job I here a lot of complaints. I here people talk about how they don’t like their job or something else in their life sucks. I used to experience this at my old job, working on cruise ship and I used to have a sign in my desk that said 1st world problems. I would keep it in my desk because people I worked with actually came from 3rd worlds and I thought it would be insensitive.

I’ve only been at this job a little over two months and I don’t feel comfortable confronting people who don’t know how good they have it. I do speak up, and if comfortable when people complain, I say something along the lines of, what would you rather be doing? Then why don’t you do that. Always in a nice way.

It’s about perspective. Also there is perspective in the sense that I don’t know the full story. As a person we hardly know anyone else’s full story. 

We never get %100 percent of the story. Therefore, our perspective is all we have. Perspective is interesting and all I can hope is that my perspective remains ever changing and is kept fluid. I really hope I keep an open mind and keep my perspective wide and don’t narrow it. I also hope I keep people in my life that remain open with me.