Perspective

One of the realities that is quite apparent to me is that I am very different from the norm of the people around me.  This awareness is particularly pronounced when I am with a group of Friends from the Quaker meeting, as I was today.  I feel comfortable with them since they are very interested in spiritual matters, but they are also firmly rooted in the trials and tribulations of this earthly existence.  I, on the other hand, am firmly rooted in the spiritual existence and consider earthly matters to be minor and very short-lived.  Both views are totally valid but different.