How to Look at Things and Spread Positivity

by karen #1965 third grade teacher how do you look at stuff?...i mean...everything...how do you look at art?...how do you look at a day when it is jam packed with things you don't wanna do?...how do you look at a person that constantly drops the ball and does not follow through?...how do you look at a state patrol guy that stops you going 75 in a 55?...how do you look at a co-worker that never works?...how do you look at those folks that are at church on sunday, but are total jerks during the week?...how do you look at folks that are not nice to your children?...how do you look at a teacher that never gives you a good grade on an essay?...how do you look at a situation where you know folks are making mistakes, but it is really not your job to push them in the best direction?...how do you look at people that are truly the opposites of you?...how do you look at a close family member that sometimes hurts your feelings?...how do you look at that husband or boyfriend or wife or girlfriend that never folds the clothes?...how do you look at the puppy that constantly tears up everything and could probably chew the tires off your car?...how do you look at that walmart checkout lady that does not smile when you crack a joke?...how do you look at friends or family that let you down and make you sad?...how do you look at people that are SOOOOO negative and never have a positive thing to say about anything?....

folks....i am telling you...you have to make the best of stuff...if you are looking at things and becoming angry or hurt or annoyed...well, find a new way to look at it...just that simple...think of another way to look at it...surely there is an explanation for the behavior of others that you must learn to accept...so................don't judge a man until you have walked 2 moons in his moccasins or as elvis sang....until you have walked a mile in their shoes...

here is how i look at art sometimes when no one is around...this is a robert rauschenbert painting...now i am gonna start trying harder to look at everything in my life this same way...i think i can do it...i may take a little energy or creativity, but it i will certainly have a different view...funny how you can apply stuff in art to everything in life...check me out...having fun looking at art....

like elvis sang in the 1970s..

If I could be you, if you could be me

For just one hour, if we could find a way

To get inside each other's mind

If you could see you through my eyes

Instead your own ego I believe you'd be

I believe you'd be surprised to see

That you've been blind

Walk a mile in my shoes

just walk a mile in my shoes

Before you abuse, criticize and accuse

Then walk a mile in my shoes

Now if we spend the day

Throwin' stones at one another

'Cause I don't think, 'cause I don't think

Or wear my hair the same way you do

Well, I may be common people

But I'm your brother

And when you strike out

You're tryin' to hurt me

It's hurtin' you, Lord HAVE mercy

Walk a mile in my shoes

just walk a mile in my shoes

Before you abuse, criticize and accuse

Then walk a mile in my shoes

Now there are people on reservations

And out in the ghetto

And brother there, but, for the grace of God

Go you and I,

If I only had wings of a little angel

Don't you know, I'd fly

To the top of a mountain

And then I'd cry, cry, cry

Walk a mile in my shoes

just walk a mile in my shoes

Before you abuse, criticize and accuse

Then walk a mile in my shoes

Elvis...singing...Walk a Mile in My Shoes...

happy april 24, 2010