Outside The Windows

When May stepped into her adolescence, she began to have her own point of views on everything, and always had differences with her father. She felt her dad always nagged on things. Everything didn't seem right to him. So her relationship with her dad didn't go very well.
One day, she needed to go to a remote place, and her dad drove her there. They didn't talk much on the way. When they reached to the outskirts, her dad saw a river and said to her that the river was very dirty with lots of garbage. He continued to complain that those people were irresponsible and caused great damages to the environment. May looked outside the window. She couldn't agree with her dad as she saw that the river was quite nice, and it wasn't dirty at all. She felt her dad started again to nag on things as usual. She then withdrew into silence, and they didn't talk any more for the rest of the journey.
Today, May went to the same place again. But this time, she was the driver herself. When she reached to the same spot of the outskirts as she and her father did, she discovered that there were really two rivers; the one on the driver's side was indeed very dirty and full of garbage, the other on the passenger's side was very nice and clean like what she had seen before. She then realized that she had never looked at things from her father's perspective. She wanted very much to tell her dad that indeed he was right, and wanted very much to say sorry to him. But she was not able to do so as her father had already passed away last month.

We all have different views. Sometimes, we may base on our own experience and ability to view subjectively and judge on others. If things turn up differently from our expectations, we tend to disagree and feel frustrated. Try to look more from other people's perspective and understand their rationale and difficulties. We can then have a better understanding of the true picture and can calmly face the situation and handle the matter more appropriately.