Perspective

 I’ve blogged about this in the past but this is something that keeps coming back to the forefront.  What’s my perspective?  It changes and shifts every single moment.  It’s affected by my environment, the people around me, the noise of society yet I have the ability to choose my perspective.  This is the great thing about being a human, we have choice.  With that choice comes consequences and we have to be able to accept them if we want to have free choice.  With those consequences comes perspective, they are completely and 100% linked.  

My wife and I have recently taken some holidays together and it was amazing.  We never set an agenda we just did what we wanted to do in that moment.  This was a little odd as I’m kind of a person that likes having a “loose” agenda.  However we didn’t have one of those and it was perfect!  I was able to get some training in, some forms practise but most importantly I was able to just enjoy being in the moment.  I was able to tune out the noise from society, the constant pull of the mobile device and just enjoy the moment.  I was able to evaluate my perspective on a lot things both Kung Fu related and non with most things having Kung Fu woven into them in some way.  

I realized during this time that my perspective has changed from chasing money and title most commonly known as “The American/Canadian Dream” to chasing time.  The ability to realize that I have enough money, enough stuff but never enough time.  Perhaps I’ve come to this realization because I’m at the mid point in my life?  It doesn’t matter to me why it just matters that I have realized this, finally.  I want more than anything to enjoy life, the smells, the tastes, the moment.  I’ve finally found peace with myself, a place and time that I’m truly happy both work and personally.  I can’t tell you why it’s taken this long other than I was always looking at the other side of the fence, what everyone else had and what I thought I wanted.  By doing this it affected my perspective.  You see I felt that I needed a title, more money etc to be happy when I didn’t need that at all.  

I just needed to change my perspective.

Mr. Repay