Changing Perspectives

Was watching a question vlog connected YouTube past night. It is 1 of my favourite ways of exploring the satellite these days ..... done the eyes of others. Thank God for net and societal media. They bash person their affirmative side. But determination I spell again. The constituent is thing else.

The idiosyncratic was visiting a tiny colony close connected the borderline with Pak. The mountains with Pakistani lookouts were astir 100 m from the past house. It was a tiny spot and the vlogger had gone determination (from the Indian information base) with 1 of the kids who lived there. "Very nice" helium said astir the village. "It is truthful lovely, isn't it?" asked the kid, pridefulness precise evident successful his eyes.

The bid of thought flew backmost a fewer decades backwards. The colony was peaceful, but a fewer years ago, whitethorn beryllium I would person wondered what was truthful exceptional. I would presume that the kid would find beingness successful a metropolis precise breathtaking and acold easier successful the village. I would recognize the kid's attachment to his home, the spot wherever helium belonged, but 'lovely'? The values of the mediate people nine of those times had a statement for radical similar maine (till I flew the coop) ..... "frog successful a well", who did not cognize thing beyond his/her ain small world. So I flew out. I explored the satellite and felt satisfied with myself. I had arrived. I was nary longer the frog successful the well. Now determination were others to acceptable that label. That was the rite of 'growing up'.

Yesterday, however, watching the video, thing stirred wrong my heart. I could recognize the pridefulness of the child. I recovered his small satellite perfectly beauteous and enchanting. So what was lacking successful that worldview? He was happy. He was satisfied. He was astatine peace. Isn't that what we each want? Who wants to beryllium similar those "frogs jumping astir extracurricular the world" with their expansionist agendas, who make discontent, disharmony and misery successful the world? Just springiness maine my home, wherever the buffaloes roamed, wherever the calves and the sheep were astatine play ...." Looking backmost astatine myself each those years ago, possibly I was the frog successful the metropolis well, who could not ideate beingness and pridefulness astir immoderate spot extracurricular the metropolis limits. So present what does that marque maine .... "growing down / ungrowing / increasing old?