Why you MUST practice observing the world through other points of view?

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I love the feeling of going on a hike. There are so many life lessons in this activity that I could write a whole book on why going on a hike is something everyone should do at least once in their lifetime. Here, I would like to highlight only one point among thousands I can see, and that is seeing something from another perspective.

Let me contextualize first: recently I went on this breathtaking hike, which took me about 4 hours to complete. I didn’t even finish the hike but I created my own version of it (maybe a topic for another essay). However, one of the viewpoints of this hike is to see the main city from the top of a hill, which is always a mindblowing experience for me, even though several hikes have the feature of overlooking a given city from another perspective. But, this time, I decided to write about it.

• Why is it a mindblowing experience?

We live our life in our daily routine, doing our everyday activities and eventually, we get caught up in the details of this situation and leads us to feel stressed, compare ourselves with others, and care about insignificant parts of our lives. And, funny enough, we don’t even notice how ingrained we are in our little bubbles of frustration over insignificant situations. One of the dangers of reducing our worldview is…