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Perspective is everything.

That said, and with some authority,

I will now state with an equally authoritative voice that…

Perspective is not everything…

It is true that there is a proper perspective for most situations that allows those things being perceived to be more manageable, more positive, more insightful, more inspiring or simply more informative…

And of course the opposite is true as well.

But a glass half empty or half full, contains the same amount of water regardless of your perspective.

A petri dish left out over a weekend could be perceived as sloppy lab work…

Following this perspective could lead to countless meetings on the best way to prevent such things from happening in the future, maybe followed by some dirty looks from fellow folks in lab coats for making them attend such meetings through no fault of their own…

Or, it could be seen as an experiment all unto itself.

What happens when you leave a plate of bacteria out overnight in the lab?

What were the results of this mistake-speriment?

This is of course the perspective that Alexander Flemming assumed when he discovered that something had attacked a bacterial sample mistakenly left out in his lab…

Regardless of the perspective that Flemming had happened to don that day…

The occurrence of a soil fungus finding its way to that sample would have been the same.