As silly as it sounds, Google asked me if I wanted to hear a poem the other day and it chose A Foreign Land by Robert Louis Stevenson.  It expresses what a child feels climbing up a tree and seeing the world around them from a different perspective.  As adults we see things as ordinary or even plain where as children we find the extraordinary in the ordinary.  Kids see possibility in things we take for granted.  Sometimes we need a reminder that for a different perspective, we have to get above where we are now. Sometimes we need to venture out of what is ordinary in order to find a new way of doing things—or we need to remember that there is magic in the ordinary.  Too often we take for granted the fact that we are alive, that we are able to breathe, that we can move, that we have access to all of this information at our fingertips. 

At the simplest level, we can’t make new decisions with old habits as mentioned in yesterday’s piece.  Sometimes we need to get back to that childlike wonder where we see possibility in everything, where we see magic in what’s around us.  The level of imagination in children is a reminder that we can make anything extraordinary.  The ability to see things differently, to see them for more than they are is a gift, and sometimes, especially when we feel our lowest, it’s those simple things and that shift in perspective that helps us see things a different way.  That can start with gratitude and appreciation and that can evolve into a new way of doing things because we see a different perspective.  The days when things seem especially challenging are the ones where we need that tree the most.  Instead of falling into old habits and reactions, break the pattern and do something else.  There is magic in each of us, there is magic in this world, we just have to remember how to tap into it.