Today we had a workshop that we had to attend at school… You know, the kind of thing that you just dread going to… BUT I have to say, it was very interesting!! I usually expect the worst from those kinds of things, 'cause then I'm always pleasantly surprised when it's not as bad as I expected!!
Anyway, we did one activity that I thought was soooo interesting!!! And made me remember that everything really relates to perception, and one person's thought is often very different than another's…
There were animal signs set up on separate tables… We each had to decide what animal we were when we became angry, and go stand by that animal sign (it was a bullying workshop… hence the anger management stuff)… There was a lion, mouse, kangaroo, ostrich, skunk and goldfish… once we all chose our animals, we had to state why we chose them… Can I just say VERY interesting!!!! Each person chose the animal for totally different reasons!!! Fascinating!!!
I chose goldfish because I'm on a total news ban (if you watch or listen to news at all, I think you can understand why… it's all BAD… I made the mistake of watching the news one time when I was "hoping" for a delayed opening at school, in the span of 5 minutes I heard a story about that little girl allegedly killed by her mother, a still-born baby that had been "disposed" of at a large hospital, a drunk driving accident… a soldier killed in Iraq… the list goes on… Now I just don't even care about the weather… I have 4 wheel drive, we'll be fine… Anyway, I digress…) I'm living in my own little "happy world" there is NO NEWS ALLOWED here where bad things don't happen to people :) So, the goldfish lives in his own little happy place too… I can imagine myself in my own little bowl, with my little fishy friends, happily going around in our happy place…
The most interesting thing… there were 2 other "goldfish" as well… One chose it because they felt that the goldfish goes around and around, and they felt that they would go around in circles always coming back to the same problem, and not being able to let go of it, just keep going around it… Such a totally different reason to choose the same thing!!! And the other person chose it under the "Just keep swimming" theory that nothing can really catch them 'cause they just keep swimming (ala Nemo :))
Anyway, I just had to say that it was really much more interesting that I thought… And really reminds you that something can mean one thing to one person, and something completely different to another person… Perspective…
