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Perspective really limits us at times, doesn’t it? Break outside your box today
Two things happened recently to make me think about this matter of "breaking out" or "living outside the box," as the cliches go.
We had dinner with some old friends we've known since college days. They were in town for a convention, and since they live about 2,500-3,000 miles from us we make it a point to get together for an evening any time their careers bring them this way. It was a wonderful time. During the course of ordering, the guy had some fun joking with the waiter about specific menu items, service preferences, etc. It was done and received in good humor.
When the waiter walked away, my friend looked at me, winked, and said, "I really love to try to get restaurant servers to think break out of the box when they serve me."
In the second instance, my son was visiting as we sat watching a television news cast. A commercial came on for life insurance, the one in which a celebrity endorser (I won't name him, but his last name rhymes with "Aw, Heck") tosses out some life insurance quotes of a general amount and invites all of us senior citizens out there to call for free info. I was surprised by my son's negative reaction. It went something like, "What? That's ridiculous. Why would someone want to BUY $25,000 life insurance? Why, every company I've ever worked for supplies that much for free as a benefit." I was careful to explain to my son that many, MANY of us are either self-employed with no insurance of any kind, or "under employed" and in need of some insurance. That had honestly never occurred to him. I believe our conversation made him take at least a peek over the edge of his "career box" at the world the rest of us are living in.
How about you? Are your experiences, your day-to-day approach to live keeping you boxed it? Make an effort today to take at least a little peek outside your many boxes at the way others live. It's liberating!
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