Change Your Perspective, Change Your Life
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How did seeing birds from above change Eddie’s perspective at the Grand Canyon?
Twice in the last month, I looked down and saw the tops of birds. Once standing at the edge of the Grand Canyon, and once from the balcony of an Airbnb overlooking Vancouver. And both times, I had the exact same thought. How lucky am I to see this? Which is kind of amazing, right? I'm 38 years old. I've seen birds my entire life. I've watched them disappear into clouds. I've seen them land on power lines, walk across parking lots, steal food at the beach. Probably seen a million birds. Just never from above. And so a few weeks ago, I hiked the Grand Canyon a few miles down, then all the way back up. And if you've done that hike, you know something interesting happens on the way back. It's actually a beautiful thing.
Life gets really simple. You're not thinking about your goals or your business or who's ahead of you. You're thinking about the next switchback, the next drink of water, the next patch of shade. It's one of the things I love most about doing challenging things. They strip away all that stuff that doesn't matter. All right, so made my way up. And when I got to the rim, I dropped my backpack, walked over to the edge. And, you know, I remember my breathing still intense, leaning on the rail for a second, looking out. People always tell you how beautiful the Grand Canyon is. And they're absolutely right. It's a stunning landscape. But I'm surprised to say it wasn't the beauty that stayed with me. What stayed with me was how quiet it made me, not my surroundings, but inside.
It's almost like your thoughts realize they're standing next to something much bigger than themselves. You know, I stood there for a while, long enough that I stopped looking at the canyon, just started noticing things. That's when I saw them. A few birds drifting through the canyon below me. Sun catching their backs. I could see the tops of their wings. I remember just smiling. I didn't think I'd discovered some profound truth or anything like that. It just felt odd. It was backwards. I just remember thinking like, huh, this is not the way things should be. Eventually, picked up my backpack, got in the car, and that was the end of it. Then, a couple weeks later, I was in Vancouver. One night, walked out onto the balcony, city, settling down.
You get that beautiful white noise, train somewhere in the distance, a few headlights moving through the streets below. It's like that... quiet hum cities have before they finally fall asleep and I'm painting this picture because it just felt surreal you know and then as I lean on the railing sure enough again the tops of birds and I laugh it's like you again watched them go by and thought like this must mean something right it like moved me
What happens to focus and priorities during a difficult climb or challenge?
Another thought that, I mean, let's face it, most people would find pretty mundane, probably see it and forget about it five minutes later. The more I thought about it, the more I became convinced that the greatest reward wasn't standing where I was standing, whether it's Vancouver or the top of the Grand Canyon, it was how differently I could see. That's what climbing, literally and metaphorically, has always given me, not just mountains, In life, every season I've grown the most, every challenge I didn't think I could handle, every difficult situation, every failure and success, they all did the same thing. They didn't change my circumstances. They changed where I was standing. I mean, where you stand changes what you see changes too.
I mean, that's one of life's greatest gifts. Not that it gives us new worlds, but that it keeps giving us new ways to see the world we're already living in. I didn't hike the Grand Canyon hoping to see the tops of birds. If you asked me to predict what I'd remember most, I would have said the view, the challenge, making it back to the top. Not birds. But life has a habit of working that way. The moments that stay with us are rarely the ones we plan for. We chase one thing and come home carrying another. And so now, when I find myself somewhere high, I look down. Sometimes there are birds, sometimes there aren't.
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