Persepectives

Again off the Greenbelt theme but this seemed too good to leave -

Tabi, my daughter, has started college after being home schooled for the whole of her life.
Lyle, my friend's son, has started college but on a different course after being in regular school the whole of his life.

Tabi's course is 16hrs of lessons plus breaks - Mon from 9-4.30, Tues 9-12.30. Weds and Thurs 9-14.45 - Her comment on Thurs "I'm tired as I am now in full time education!"
Lyle's course is 21hrs of lessons plus breaks - Mon, Thurs and Fri 9-4.30, Tues 9-12.30 and Weds off - His comment "hey this is so much less time at college than when I was at school. and wow all day Weds off!"
Tabi is having trouble trying to have time to eat her lunch as lunch break is only 45 mins.
Lyle is loving now having 45mins to eat his lunch instead of just the 30 he had at school
Tabi finds it interesting that there is only 30 mins break in the morning and then 15 in the afternoon to get between lessons.
Lyle thinks it is amazing to get 30mins break in the morning and then 15 to get between lessons in the afternoon instead of no break between starting school and the 30 mins lunch and having to rush from on class to the next with no time inbetween.

It made me wonder how often we look at life as fair or unfair from our known paradigm rather than from what it really is.
In fact there was a very funny comment on "Mock the Week" a news satire program we watch on bbc iplayer, where they were going on about some hassle in the UK and one of the comedians said "oh yes in Africa they all worry about the UK and how hard life is, that in the UK they only get their wheelie bins emptied once every 2 weeks!" Perspective!