Naivete isn't such a bad thing - H

Gosh, I think I need to mute my enthusiasm sometimes, especially when it's about people I don't know all that well. I'll get really excited about something that happened to another person, and I automatically feel concern and want to help them in any way I can, anything from wedding planning to encouraging a new brother or sister in Christ to furniture shopping, or whatever else I think I can help with. I guess it can make the other person feel a little weird, probably like I'm intruding. They're probably thinking, "Who are you?!" I can't help it sometimes. I just want to help...but I guess there's a time and a place. Maybe I just need to be sneakier about it and run covert "I'm excited for you!" operations...yeah... I don't think so. Pooh! Why can't I just be excited for everyone, and why can't they all recieve it graciously. =P I've been called naive one more than one occasion. I don't think I'm completely naive, but it's not such a bad thing if from that you see something pure. Don't you think? Jadedness or cynicism often follows worldly experience, doesn't it? Who wants that?

I'm taking a design class in the city, and the instructor made an interesting comment that perspective is a construct, that when we look at a picture with say an elephant in the foreground and a small elephant in the background, we would say that the small elephant is distant in the picture. She said if you show the same picture to someone in Africa, they would merely see the small elephant. They don't necessarily see it as 3D and in the distance. I thought that was interesting.