Perspective Matters
I recently went to see the movie Sully and really liked it. Perhaps, because of his ties to Denison, I am biased as are most of us who live in Texoma. Putting that aside, I think I would have liked the movie anyway. Sully comes across as a prepared, honest, hard-working, honorable character, and the story is just a feel-good tale of how people worked together to turn what could have been a disastrous tragedy into an inspiring story of preparedness and heroism. I particularly noted that whenever the event was referred to as a "crash", Sully would offer correction calling the event a "controlled water landing." Two very different perspectives on the same event. One perspective seeing the event as only an accident destined to end badly. The other perspective seeing it as a heroic response to an unforeseeable and unfortunate turn of events. Sully's response reminded me that perspective matters. I suppose that none of us will ever ...