Changing Perspective

 Levi climbing the stairs of the pool

Upside down and Backwards

Tonight Levi changed my perspective again.  He was about to go to bed and he perked up and said;

"Why don't we sleep with our heads at the other end of the bed?"

I thought it was a fabulous idea and so he is in there sleeping with his head at the foot of the bed.  I realized that kids spend a lot of time playing around with their perspectives, but as we approach adulthood, we settle into what is right or correct or socially appropriate.  I wonder that it isn't a really good thing to settle in so securely.  It is great to watch Levi climb up steps of a pool backward, just because he could and it was worth trying.  I could have told him that he wasn't going to have the strength to get out that way, but it would have ruined the experience of just trying something completely different. 

I wonder how much better we would all get along as adults if we allowed ourselves to change our perspectives more often.  I really envy my sister some times.  I think that her mind gives her different ideas at times.  Admittedly they are sometimes extremely disordered but it does give you a new look at life by listening to her schemes.  I am trying to withhold the instant "That can't work" mentality that I have as she talks.  Oh, I am right, the ideas have flaws that you could drive a Hummer through, but they also are looking at things from a different stance