Scales

This morning as I was driving into work, I was stopped at a light waiting to make a left turn and I happened to glance up at the temperature reading, it said 34°. I had to laugh, you see last week while in Mexico the high for the day was 34°. Even though the numbers are the same the scales are very different.

34°F and 34°C are the same in that they are temperature readings, but because one of Fahrenheit and the other is Celsius there is a big difference in how they feel. That is the same with other “feelings”. I may feel like I’m starving, but when you watch a child eat our of the garbage dump you realize that we are on different scales. I may feel exhausted, but I don’t have to be up all night with a colicky baby. I may feel like I have nothing to wear, but I have more than one pair of shoes, in fact I have shoes.

This doesn’t negate my feelings, they are real, but there are times that we need to remember what scale we are on and 34° can actually feel like 93° or 1° depending on the scale.