More of my food for thought:

Several years ago, when I was in the Army, I and a few of my army buddy and our girlfriend went camping. While camping we spent the nights in a log cabin, and for good reason: hungry bears. Usually, Smokey Mountain bears are satisfied to dine on an occasional backpack or two, but on rare occasions, they prefer the proprietors of the backpacks, so we were cautious.
One morning, after sleeping on the wire cots in a cold and empty cabin, my fellow campers and I were enjoying breakfast when we observed a four-legged visitor rumbling down the path. The brown bear didn’t seem too threatening, but we were in no mood to take risks, so we beat a hasty retreat into the cabin. All of us, that is, except Darvin. Darvin wanted photographs to forever memorialize our brush with danger, so he pulled out his small camera and started clicking. As the bear came closer and closer, Darvin stood, still as a statue, clicking and winding, clicking and winding, clicking and winding, never taking his eyes off the camera tiny view lens. Gradually, we came to realize that Darvin saw a different bear through his undersized viewfinder. In Darvin’s mind, looking through such a tiny viewfinder, the bear was still for away, but in reality, it had ambled within an easy paw’s reach of our daring (dare I say foolhardy?) friend.
Our cries warning finally cause Darvin to lower his camera. Immediately, he realized that the bear was not just close, but very close. Darvin quickly jumped out of harms way and slammed the cabin door closed. And I learned a lesson on perspective: Darvin’s perspective, the one provided through the lens of his small camera, was not reality. The same can be said for the ways that we sometimes view life.
Sometimes, the world seems to be in focus, but it’s not. Sometime, we think that we share a common life perspective with our friends, family, neighbor and co-worker, but we don’t. Like my friend Darvin looking through his viewfinder, we believe things to be a certain way, but reality is different, indeed.
We need to continue to grow, develop, learn, teach and soul search to what is real, true and factual. We need to talk and discuss our perspective with other to develop clarity, focus and will.