Fresh New Day

The sun came up again today. I can't say I'm surprised. I was pretty much expecting it. Well, I was actually 100% expecting it to come up today. However, in a few hours there will be a total solar eclipse in the southern hemisphere. It will be seen by very few people but it will happen nonetheless. Can you imagine what it must have been like in the long ago past when there was a solar eclipse in the middle of the day and the people had no understanding of how the solar system worked? They must have been frightened out of their boots when darkness fell across their land for no apparent reason. Their fear, of course, springing their lack of understanding of the big picture.

Hmmm, that principle couldn't still arise today, could it? What if our negative emotions were simply the result of a lack of understanding or lack of ability to see the whole picture? What if every negative emotion could be transformed with a change of context or perspective? It couldn't be THAT easy. Or could it? By the way, I mean EVERY negative emotion, not just the easy ones. Imagine a time in the distant future when we speak of our understanding of emotions in the same way that we speak of understanding solar eclipses and the like. Imagine the freedom. It's always an issue of perspective.