Full Moon in March
Musing on differences and perspectives
I'm musing on differences and perspectives.
3 weeks ago I spent a week in a very commercialised part of Lanzarote - to be honest, it wasn't so easy for me. It was a suitable location for 8 members of my family to get together and celebrate various significant birthdays but I had limited specific appreciation for this Island.
2 weeks ago I spent a week with my cousin in a quieter area of the island, with a few restaurants, and no shops; a more familiar situation for me being able to hear the sea at night. In my comfort zone.
This week I am in the middle of the Island, surrounded by wind, volcanoes, vines, and extraordinary natural architecture. I'm staying on land that has belonged to 3 generations of Islanders, invited as a guest.
Staying in just one of these locations would have given me a limited experience and perspective of this Island. I had no idea that in such a small area of land, so much difference existed, with room for multiple lifestyles more or less in relation to the surrounding environment. Is this co-existence? Maybe one example of it?
Stretching my perspectives is one way I educate myself and increase my empathy for those living with different life experiences than my own; a never-ending quest.
Depending on where you are living in the world and your inner and outer terrain, how do you both stretch yourself and bring yourself back to ease?