Heart-Lifting for Disheartening Times – Storytelling Gives PERSPECTIVE

It’s all so overwhelming and it seems everyone is tired, discouraged, maybe angry or cynical or depressed, maybe confused or disheartened…just weary.
Each day during this April A-Z Blogging Challenge I’ll offer a short musing on an aspect or two of the many ways the ancient-yet-very-contemporary experience of storytelling – both listening and telling – is an enjoyable, fortifying and heart-lifting practice, for anyone!

P – Storytelling Gives PERSPECTIVE

Three people were visiting and viewing the Grand Canyon – an artist, a pastor, and a cowboy. As they stood on the edge of that massive abyss, each one took a deep breath, and spoke…

The artist whispered, “Ah, what a beautiful scene to paint!”

The minister exclaimed, “What a wonderful example of the handiwork of God!”

The cowboy said, “What a terrible place to lose a cow!”

PERSPECTIVE is everything…!

And when you listen to a story, and all the more so when you tell one, you are given new PERSPECTIVES.

Each character in the story has their point of view, and it can be really entertaining, enlightening, even thought-provoking to enter into a story with one or more characters having PERSPECTIVES quite different from your own.

Sometimes we get the opportunity to really “walk in another’s shoes” – and we can receive so much by doing that.

To gain some understanding of different PERSPECTIVES from our own can be truly a gift.

And really needed – especially during disheartening times of not being able to understand others… but actually, always.

Thanks for reading – Pam

Grand Canyon photo by Pam Faro. Glasses/perspective photo by Nathan Dumlao on Unsplash.