Thunderstorms

A friend recently posted this image on her facebook page. It's a thunderstorm over Miami, Florida. I thought, "Wow.." After all, it's a really interesting and beautiful photograph. Then I commented on how different it looks when we're in a (real) thunderstorm rather than looking at it from a distance. It's just so mind-boggling different.

For some reason, this made me think about life and the daily "thunderstorms" we encounter. When we're in the middle of it all, we get drenched by the rain and have to deal with with the flashes and booming of lightning and thunder. However, for other people, looking at it from the outside, they can see it but they can't really experience what you're experiencing at that very moment. It's simply a difference in perspectives. We can never truly understand (we can try..) what someone else is going through because we're simply on the outside looking in. Funny how nature has a way of giving us life lessons when we're not even looking for them. :)