Perspective

I just deleted a long post I wrote two nights ago. It was something along the lines of whining again and promising to do something about the problem. I deleted it because I got a little dose of perspective while watching the documentary Inside North Korea.

In it Lisa Ling disguises herself as a medial coordinator traveling with a surgeon to gain access into the country and see how the people live. Scary shit. Sci-Fi future-world scary. Maybe I'm just that naive, but I didn't think societies like that were possible anymore. With such ubiquitous modern communications, how could an entire country be so isolated and brainwashed? Well, the leader bans the Internet and all cell phones and controls all the media, that's how.

At the end of the movie I felt incredibly grateful I didn't live there. I felt so fortunate to be able to choose what I brainwash myself with instead of having it forced onto me from birth. And so I deleted my silly little post about the rough day I had. HA! Take that you bad, bad day! You can't be bad enough for me! Nothing like a little perspective to show me that my only problem is my attitude.

I'm not promising to never whine again, I do like whining, but for now I'm just grateful I have pictures of my cute little kids displayed around the house instead of posters of some crazy leader. I have the freedom to choose my attitude too.