Perfect Perspective

 

Forgive me for sounding cheezy, but in all honesty, my mother has always been my guardian angel. So much more than in the realm of my health and diabetes, although in that area she sure knows how to shine. If you ask her she says “Krystal does it on her own, I haven’t given her a shot since she was 10.” Well, she is honest in only the later part, as she is part of the reason I stay half sane! (Although many will beg to differ with my sanity, I am sure.)

Just recently she shared a wise perspective to take towards strangers or ignorant people who care, but just don’t understand what, why, where, when and how diabetes works.

(So….that applies to just about everyone, including myself sometimes.)

All joking aside, let me share her wisdom as it may bring you some sanity, as it did me. Her newly found perspective arouse after 29 years of parenting. We were having a “catch up on life” conversation and she was expressing some frustrations she had been having with some of my younger siblings (in their early 20’s) . These are common place frustrations in themselves, but due to the longevity of parenting years, they have become what seems to be redundant. Humble as she is, my mother begins on bringing to light her need for patience and tender heartedness towards the abusive and well, just annoyingly immature decisions of these siblings. “Its not that they had made these mistakes before, it’s that I feel like I have taught or corrected them time and time again” was her claim. Makes sense right? She continued and encouraged me by making a connection with my interactions, as a diabetic, with strangers and ignorant people.

She says “my frustrations are probably similar to when someone talks to you and says some ignorant statement about diabetes. You tend to get frustrated and scream in your head ‘I have told you a million times, that’s not how it works!’ You must remember, they HAVEN’T been told. It only feels like that because you have had diabetes for almost 20 years. Even though you have told it so many times, it hasn’t been that person who has heard it.”

My mom is wise and humble. It is a wise and humble ability to choose to look at anything, a disease or parenting in these cases, from another’s perspective. Patience is important. Perspective is important. I think the world could learn a little from this seemingly simple concept.

Just cause you see it, hear it, learn it, experience it in your own perspective, that doesn’t make it the only considerable or right perspective.

Thanks again mom!