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When I was younger (in around 3rd grade), I didn't yet understand the concept of different religions. I always thought that Christianity was the only “true” religion, as that had been what I was taught at the time. So now that I lived in a muslim country, I asked someone about how islam was different to christianity. They explained it to me, and I realized that our religions were both similar, and that there is more than one religion. This is way different to much of my christian family, who doesn’t understand that similarity, and I feel as though I was lucky to be introduced to this idea from an early age and therefore have a more open mind to this idea.

An object that I feel greatly represents this idea of changing perspective is, and I know this sounds stupid, a spoon. Genuinely any ordinary spoon would work, and this is because normally when you look at a spoon on the side that is curved in, your reflection upside down. Yet, when you flip the spoon around, you are right-side up. I bring up this object because it's similar with religion; when only looking at one side, it's very narrow and always looks the same, yet if you flip it around and look from a different angle you see the similarities and learn to acknowledge them, as they both are connected to the same idea. (I know this was kind of a weird analogy, but it made sense in my head).

Love you this! This would work as an object because it is your spoon and not a generic spoon. The explanation was great!

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One thing about me and my brother is that I am doing better than him academically. My parents are not too happy about that so they always used to tell him, "oh look what sarah is doing... she never does that". It has always been really strict for him but not too much for me. So he is always being compared to me which is incredibly frustrating as I now understand. Before, I didn't really understand the situation, therefore I didn't care. But one day, him and I were talking and he was complaining to me about how frustrating and infuriating it is whenever my parents compare him to me. He got emotional and he seemed really upset. I was able to finally see his perspective and how frustrating it must have been to experience this. So I took action because I understood the situation from another perspective and I established the issue. I had a talk with my parents about it and they realized their mistake.  This taught me that when seeing other people's perspective can help determine what the conflict is and can help trigger a response on our behalf.

An object that is about different perspective is actually an image of either an old lady or a young woman looking away based on how you see it.

Great example Sarah! He is lucky to have you as an older sister! Do you think you would have been capable of understanding this at a younger age or does maturity help? I would pick a more real life object or personal connection you have to it. Well done!

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To say my siblings and I fight a lot, is an understatement, 2 sisters, both close in age, both overbearing, and both incredibly invading when it comes to my private life. This combination eventually ended in fights upon fights, about unnecessary, petty, and annoying topics that had no importance to our life.

We would argue on who sat at the front seat of the car, who was forced to eat more vegetables at dinner, and who got the bigger bite of chocolate at dessert.

Personally, I always wanted a close relationship with my older sister, A relationship that still hasn't even begun to form.

What I didn't realize, is the same attitude my older sister had toward me, I projected on my younger sister. I immediately understood how she felt toward my unjustified anger and that changed my perspective drastically. the last thing I wanted was to influence my relationship with another sister. So we talked, and we opened up on how each of us saw certain situations.

While we still fight on who will sit at the front of the car, other forms of immature arguing have ceased. My little sister and I opened up to each other and actively communicate to ensure that when we do argue, we take the other's perspective into account.

Perspective drives knowledge, without the right perspective, the knowledge comes out biased. In order to have facts, people must account for every angle, side, and perspective of a story.

I can relate my story to a mirror, what I see, may not be seen by others. I see my reflection, my perspective, my perception of the situation, while others see a different story when they look into a mirror.

Love this! An excellent reflection! Yess, your own personal mirror would be a good object!

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To be honest, I am a very competitive and stubborn person so it hasn't always been easy to see situations from other people's perspective. One time my friend and I were partners in a small in-class competition in which he wasn't taking it as seriously as I had (just a reminder it was a small and stupid competition). After having a small argument, he was able to express our differences in viewing the event, with me being super competitive and him taking it lightly. Although a minute argument, I was able to see where he was coming from as it can be hard to work with someone stubborn. Through this I was able to change my approach to everything in seeing that there is a time and a place for everything, like there is a time and place for being competitive.

Perspective can influence knowledge on the basis of how we digest, decipher and  analyze life. An object as an example of this, is art in a museum. Everyone can interpret art  in their own way as it is subjective; but, if we look at it through multiple perspectives we would be able to broaden our mindset and our nature of dissecting and exploring everything.

Excellent! Yessss, I love this discussion about when is the right time and place for debate. Do we always have time to see all perspectives? When do we know it is important to do so? Great object! Just pick a specific artwork.

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Once I was really upset because a friend and I were growing apart with time. We didn't talk as much as we used to or saw each other as often as we did before. In my mind, I thought that it was them who were distancing themselves from me. But after a talk with them and them telling me that they thought I was the one distancing myself from them, I realized that we were neither at fault. I realized that distancing can happen over time especially when there are other factors influencing distance such as something happening or changing in a person's life.  This showed me that my perspective on an issue might not be the same as someone else's and sharing our perspectives can contribute to understanding.

An object would be that famous dress that people see in different colours (photo attached).

Well done! It almost makes me wonder if that is the true definition of maturity - being able to listen and sit with other perspectives. Yesss, this does count as an object! Making it one of your own pieces of clothing would make it stronger as a real life object.

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Putting myself in other people's shoes was not always easy for me, I always grew up pretty stubborn and it was just simply hard to see another person's perspectives, but this one incident changed everything for me. I always grew up following my sister's shoes, what she does imitate everything she did but was a little aggressive. She would always get annoyed and tell me to back off as I was being the typical annoying stubborn little sister everyone has, but for some reason this one day she just broke. She was really upset and told me to just stop wanting to be her and that I needed to step up and not hide behind her. I didn't really understand the stress that was going through her head (university exams, personal life, and much more), I began to realize something must be wrong. I finally laid back and observed kept to myself and looked at everything from her perspective. I began to fully under her point of view, how her shoes fit, and began to calm down, try to help, or even be there.

Putting you're in other people's perspective helps you understand why they act the way act, why they say what they say. People come from different backgrounds even siblings living in the same household and that's being mindful and open to hear and listen and observe from far will always help in the future.

An object that may represent this is the optical illusions you may find in the museums, from one perspective the image or object is completely different from what another person may see. It even may be in an optical illusion image (such as to how many legs does this elephant have)

I love this example! I had a very similar experience with my older sister! Actually, a great real life object would be literally your sister's shoes! The elephant image totally messed up my mind!

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One time I was upset because of a situation that happened but when I focused on what I learned from it, I was able to see more of the positive outcomes and good things from it. Which made me feel grateful because I realized that everything happens for a reason.
Seeing things from a different perspective can make you focus on either the positive or negative outcomes.

An object would be blob art or the Rorschach inkblot test where the art shown depends on the perspective of what each person sees.

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There was a time where I was playfully arguing with a friend and I realized it was actually hurting them. I saw it in their perspective, and changed my attitude.
Knowing a different perspective can help broaden our knowledge.

An object that could represent this is cup of water, because some people may argue its half empty or half full. It all depends on perspective.

Yesss, this would work. You want your object to have a persona connection, but you could expand on that. The benefit of seeing the alternative perspective is you got along with your friend better. Well done!