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A different perspective, originally uploaded by Thorsten Becker.

I often find that people spend an awful lot of time “fixing” things, especially other people. We tend to lose our initial fascination with someone and their little quirks and ticks become more evident, sometimes to the point where we'd consider them annoying, unpleasant or even ugly. It may be interesting to stop for a moment and ask why we're suddenly noticing these things. Is it due to a change in their personality? Or has something that's now bothering us always been there and we just didn't care before? And if so why didn't we care before? Maybe because we had a different outlook, a different perspective of that person. If that is the case maybe all that's needed at times is not a change in their behavior but a change in our perspective. Maybe we need to see them in a different light, from a different angle so that we perceive their beauty again. Because there are things, no matter how hard we try, that we cannot change about ourselves and that others cannot change about themselves. But we can always try to find new ways to admire each other.

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