Perspectives

It's all about perspectives. One time I was watching a late night talk show. (Conan O'Brien). One of the features was a game called 'What in the world?!' They would project a picture onto the screen, but it was heavily zoomed in. You would have to try to guess what it was a picture of, and then they would zoom out and you would see that you were way off the mark.

When you are too close to a situation it helps to take a step back and try to see things from afar instead of up close and personal. Things will start to make more sense.

I was working on finances for camp. I'm pretty good with numbers, but I kept adding and adding and it kept coming up $50 short of what the total was supposed to be. I used excel so the calculations weren't wrong. There was a 50 missing somewhere and I needed to find it. My boss said, big deal it's just 50 dollars, let it go. But I couldn't let it go. So she told me to take a break. And when I came back, the answer was glaring me in the face.

It helps to sleep on it. I was doing a 500 piece puzzle with my friend. We all got tired and couldn't find any matches. So we went to sleep. (The puzzle is still in progress so there is no end to that story. But hopefully when we try again things will be clearer and easier to find.)

Sometimes things just look really bad or down. But if you just take a breather, sleep on it, stop and zoom out and try to look at it from a different angle- usually you see that your problem is not really a problem after all.

I had a really great time camping and would love to do it again sometime. Hope everyone is enjoying their last few days of summer. I just realized that schools are starting back next week. Scary, I thought summer was for another few weeks.

For anyone in the path of hurricane Irene- be prepared and stay safe.

Wishing everyone a happy and healthy Shabbos!

-Altie