Bird crap to some...balloons to others.
August 1st 2010 07:17
Another good example of perception is how various countries around the world view beauty. Brazil, according to the United Nations International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) “has the highest per capita consumption of weigh-reducing medication” since being overweight is not accepted there and nothing short of looking like Jessica Biel gets you a sideways look. Where on the flipside in Mauritania, a country in North Africa, men prefer their women, oh we’ll just say...robust. In this vast, desert covered land, the size of the women is considered a sign of their family’s wealth, so bigger is always better, as they say.
I think when you begin to realize that all of your thoughts or opinions on things are just your personal perception you can start to them a bit differently.
Take the other day; my husband and I were riding in the car with our girls when my three-year old kept pointing and saying, “Look Mama, balloons!” And I’m looking and looking but for the life of me, could not see any balloons. After asking her again where the balloons were, she finally said, “On the car.”
Well, it took me only a moment, but I noticed on the windshield, all of the little balloons – or bird droppings as it were – that had hit the glass and run down to form, you guessed it, the “strings” on the balloons.
So you see how perception can be a funny thing. Something disgusting and annoying to our eye, simply took the shape of an array of balloons that brightened my child’s day; and made me in not so much of a hurry to clean it off.
So before you feel bad about those extra kilos, or your love of Irish folk music from the turn of the century, or even your talent of playing two recorders simultaneously using only your nostrils, remember, someone, somewhere would love you for it.
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