When I was a child, my grandfather would often say, “There is nothing right or wrong in this world, your thinking makes it so.”
To a 10 year old that sounded really absurd, especially when I was being taught to conduct in a certain way at school as well as at home. The right way!
Over time as I’ve had the opportunity to meet people across cultures and nations, I have realised there is no right or wrong way. Practices that are considered ‘normal’ in one section of the society, are a complete unknown to other sections or sometimes even a big taboo. In either case, they seem right to the community of people who practice it. In fact, in majority of the cases, that’s the ‘only’ way they know.
Perspective is the way we see the world, its our reality. Our perspectives are shaped by the surroundings around us, our origin, our culture and the practices we’ve followed for so many years. They are complex, they are unique and they change with time.