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How a new perspective can enrich your life and your relationship
While we are on the road for the first time with our Keiler Trailer in Botswana, we have our silver wedding anniversary - 25 years of being one and staying two, what an exciting journey with countless memories! All these experiences and stories are what connect us and carry us through our lives.
We are very happy and proud to have grown together and to have experienced and mastered all the ups and downs together. The basis for us is the deep trust in love, from which respect, mindfulness and forgiveness arise. And the ability to change perspective in order to see and understand a situation or behaviour from a different angle. This opens up the views and ideas we have set for ourselves. Makes us look beyond our own horizon and teaches us that there are always different views.
And so our anniversary may be celebrated! Since we are currently at the Okavango Delta, we give ourselves the gift of a sightseeing flight over this globally unique ecosystem - again from a new perspective: from above.
Viewed from above
In order to be close to everything below us, we choose a helicopter flight with open doors and off we go, ready to take off! From the small bush airport in Maun, we fly directly over the delta: now in winter and in the dry season, the water does not reach all the way down into the individual arms of the delta. Everything is very dry and we see some bush fires: directly below us and in the distance with clouds of smoke in the sky. These fires are usually deliberately started by people so that the water can then flow unhindered into the individual plains during the rainy season - the Water, the elixir of life for all the plants, animals and people that live in the delta. The landscape is characterised by differently coloured surfaces and green islands of trees and bushes. When the delta is flooded, only these fertile islets remain.
From up here, we completely lose the proportions and dimensions - the eye and brain are unable to estimate the extent of what lies below us. When the pilot says through our headset microphones that an elephant is walking below us, I look for the size and shape of an elephant - and am amazed when I realise that it is much smaller than I thought. Although we are flying very low. The land below us seems endless and stretches to the horizon. How small is an elephant that is so big from our usual point of view! Did you recognise it in the starting picture of this blog post? This change of perspective makes us humble and shows that supposedly big things often don't have to be so big - whether it's an elephant, a problem or an argument.
Giving wings to life
We are speechless and completely inspired by everything we perceive on this flight: This unique, beautiful landscape - only shaped and drawn by nature. Animals lingering at the filled water arms such as sleeping and wallowing hippos, countless water birds, drinking elephants as well as giraffes, zebras and wildebeests grazing and running across the steppe.The glowing evening sun that bathes everything in a golden light and gives long shadows to the trees and bushes. Which makes the blue of the streams appear even deeper and more luminous and makes millions of stars glitter on the water surfaces.
The wind through our open helicopter sides, blowing in our faces and through our hair, connecting us with all the elements around us. All these moments bring us ever closer to ourselves, to creation and to our origins. They are what we will remember at the end of our lives. And we are infinitely grateful to have given ourselves the chance to give our lives wings by embarking on this adventure.
Possible questions for your personal journey of discovery:
Have you looked at your current situation from a different perspective?
In what proportion is your problem compared to your whole life?
Can you see how much more is waiting for you around you?
If you feel that you have been treated unfairly, what could have caused your counterpart to react in this way?
Possible questions for your personal journey of discovery:
Have you looked at your current situation from a different perspective?
In what proportion is your problem compared to your whole life?
Can you see how much more is waiting for you around you?
If you feel that you have been treated unfairly, what could have caused your counterpart to react in this way?
2 responses
Great starting points, dear Harriet, that you give us along the way. It's exactly as you say. You shouldn't lose sight of the other person's perspective. Just put yourself mentally on the "other" side and change your point of view.... Fortunately, my husband and I have understood it too! We're staying on the ball :-). 22 happy years!
How lovely - thank you dear Brigitte!