My perspective is a bit different coming from a home were my father only made it to the 8th grade, and mother 10th. I am not amazed by that, the fact that christianity became part of my belief system when I was in my late teens. What the hell does a teenager know anyway?

What amazes me is what came after.

Sometime around a year or two ago, I sat down and wrote out a paragraph describing what had happened . . .

Between reading Greek Tragedies, Aldous Huxley, Albert Camus, Jean Paul Sartre and Friedrich Nietzsche, in my late 20's, I had a life-changing event. Something slowly formed, an understanding of it all . . . understanding that, in life, what perspective we have is incredibly important . . . . it is not the path of least resistance that we should set out for ourselves and our future . . . it is challenging the limits . . . the young man took it all in . . . . from Greek Tragedies the notion of struggling against clearly insurmountable odds, knowing that the goal is unreachable, but continuing on in defiance . . . yes, defiance. From Aldous Huxley, understanding that we must look at the world around us through the eyes of a child, without pre-judgement, from Albert Camus and Jean Paul Sartre, the understanding of the void, and defiance of it, from Friedrich Nietzsche, the amazing and dizzying heights, exploring the mountain tops and the lowest valleys, and reveling in it all. When the young man came to understanding what is often most difficult to overcome or conquer for him was not only his greatest challenges in life, but also that which brought forth the greatest rewards, he had almost unwittingly put in place a chain of events that would lead him on a road that was beyond anything he could have imagined, that golden mean that the mind reaches, a Prometheus, Sisyphus, a muse . . . . . So now as much older man, he looks back and is thrilled, even wondrous of how the young man found his way out of the deepest, darkest valleys and into the high mountain tops. . . . . . That which is difficult is a challenge . . . . for when you have a defiant attitude towards barriers, it sets the mind to work in a way that has the potential to form a juggernaut that runs through the deep, dark valleys like Dionysus and his revelers, full tilt, head on, unruffled . . . unstoppable. In English, we say we understand . . . under-stand. The Ancient Greeks used a word quite different in perspective. Their word, ἐπισταμια . . . . "over-stand" . . . . to see from above . . . . Now that is perspective!

Perspective . . .

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