It's All About Perspective

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This husband and I…

Middle of the night…dark as dark…woke with a start…sleeping me shaking but didn’t know why…

Her…omg what was that?!…
Him…it sounded like an explosion…
Her…it sounded like glass falling hitting ground…

Got up…turned on lights…and sure enough that bedroom window of ours…one of the glass panes fell…exploded…glass raining to the concrete below…

Not long after…again the middle of the night…again awaken by a bang…two shaken old people trying to make sense of it…

Her…omg what was that?!…
Him…something hit the house…
Her…I heard glass falling…
Him…I think it was outside…

But no…a shelf in the bathroom fell…

And so it was…two people…the same time…the same place…the same freaky happenings…hear different things…

And isn’t that just how it is…in life…the same happenings but we hear different things…based on experiences…backgrounds…what it is we want to hear…

But…you know…there’s nothing wrong with turning on that lamp…seeing things in a different light…then maybe…just maybe…working together to clean up whatever mess you may have found…
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And this husband of mine…agrees…