Someone Else's Skin! blog #13 :)

You never really know what someone else is thinking, feeling, or how they would handle a situation until you take a step into their life, into their shoes. When in a sticky situation, or even just sometime when you disagree with someone, I personally, always try to take a look at what their saying from their point of view. I’m not always very good at it, but it’s something that I think is an important, skill to have.
I would have to say, though, right off the top of my mind, that there is no moment in time where I look back and am like that is the exact moment in time when I took a look at life, from someone else’s point of view. Over my whole life, my parents have cared for me dearly, and I appreciate that very much. But I never really knew what it was like to be a parent until my little sister was born, she’s 12 years younger than me, so I get a pretty good dosage of what it’s like to be a parent. I watch and care for her. I love her very much! But I never really saw what it really was like to watch over someone and protect and care for them. So, I would have to say, the moment in time when I stepped into someone else’s shoes was when my little sister Sarah was born. I figured out, in a sense, what it was like to be a parent.