This isn’t about views, it’s about vision.  The views are fleeting, the vision is sustaining—we carry the vision with us no matter the views.  The view isn’t necessarily indicative of where we’re going, it just shows us where we are in the journey.  If the view doesn’t match the vision, even if we need to stay for a while, we must keep working toward that vision because we will carry the overarching idea of the goal with us no matter what’s in front of us.  That vision is what keeps us going when things feel a little bleak or, even if things look pretty good, it keeps us moving toward our dream.  Vision is something we see others can’t because that unique vision is for us, not for anyone else.  It was given to us for a reason.  Sure we can describe it and talk about it, we can convey passion and belief about it, but in terms of actually achieving it, only we will know when we get there.  Only we know when we see what was in our minds the whole time.    

The goal can’t be about what we want to see in the end (how we look), rather it’s about what we see for the big picture.  Sure we need to know what we want our lives to look like but vision entails more than that.  It’s about how our actions impact the world around us.  It’s a long lasting thing.  We can change the landscape any time—but we can’t change the overall course of our lives.  Let me explain because we’ve also talked about moving the ship just a little bit every day until we are on the right path.  I believe the right path and vision call to us all the time.  I believe that when we are on the wrong path, the path that doesn’t align with who we are, we are able to change that course.  We always have the choice to stay on the wrong path and see that through, but we also have the choice to follow the path that directs us to the goal we have in our mind, what our soul calls us to do.    

There is another difference here and that is views refer to how something looks and vision refers to something as it is.  If we are more concerned with how we look than what we contribute, the view will change quickly and the vision will sour.  Making something look a certain way is fleeting—we can change appearance any time.  If the substance underneath doesn’t match, the appearance will quickly fade away.  Not everything is as it seems.  Don’t judge a book by its cover.  While perhaps cliché or trite, those aphorisms are no less true.  We can play Wizard of Oz and hide behind the curtain only to be revealed for what’s beneath.  Or we can actually turn ourselves into what we see and feel inside.  We had the power to make that vision a reality the entire time—we just had to be ourselves.  Perception is a funny thing because we all get something different out of the same experience.  Don’t let someone else’s perception sway us from who we are—and don’t let our perception of where we are sway us from the vision of where we are going.