What does “keep life in perspective” actually mean?

it means don’t sweat the small stuff. It’s the same thing as being short sighted or not seeing the big picture or making mountains out of a molehill.

Life really is a journey, not a destination. Your fortunes will change both for good and for ill, it’s keeping sight of what is important in life, as you define it. Ultimatly, money fame, etc, comes and goes…. Relationships with the friends, family, and loved ones stay with you for your journey if you’re lucky.

But what do I know, I’m just a big dumb ape.

When you have a problem, to not focuss only on this little problem but ot ‘put it on perspective’.

For example.. you have lost an object you like.. you can be sad and angry etc.. To put this in perspective would be to tell you that you still have a lot of objects in your posession and that there is more important things than this loss.. for example you have a secure place where you can sleep, you’re healthy, you eat well, etc..

To put it in perspective make the incident having a tinier importance than if you’d only keep focussing on it.

I feel it means that life will have both it’s ups and downs but through it all we must look towards joy so that when the downs come we can still see what is good and not give in to life’s pressures. If we keep our thoughts on the the positive and not the negative things will turn out just fine.

In short, stop day dreaming and stick to reality. Example: You see an expensive bedroom set that you really like and think, I could afford the payments but you don’t have a big enough bedroom to put it in so, you start thinking of getting a bigger place (which you can’t afford) because you really want this bedroom set. Reality check – keep like in perspective.

Exactly what it says. In other words, don’t apply more to something other than it’s actual value. Another way of saying it is, “Don’t sweat the small stuff.”. Sometimes we give importance to things that don’t really matter. Other times we neglect the things that are truly important. You have to know the value of things, people, circumstances, etc.

Gosh Redsox324, did you have to rip (or, actually, cut and paste) off of Zipperhead?

It means be nice to people as you climb the ladder to success because you’ll see them again if you slip back down to the ground.

Never get too high a feeling from success or too low when you have hurdles in front of you.

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not to take it too seriously. also that the world does not revolve around you.

so you shouldn’t take life too seriously it’s true, but at the same time remember that no one is more concerned w/ your life than you

you get it? keep it in perspective.

The people who told you that you don’t have a life probably don’t have a life themselves, they probably play xbox all day and stroke off to hot girls.

it means don’t sweat the small stuff. It’s the same thing as being short sighted or not seeing the big picture or making mountains out of a molehill.