Bryant, who after the one-sided loss in Portland said he was "not a happy camper about all this," arrived home to find Lakers fans circling the wagons and decided to try restoring perspective.
A great shame the BBC didn't invite David Cox along, whose article yesterday went some way to supporting readers' right to respond, restoring perspective and balance to a discussion that was turning into a very peculiar flame war: established media versus their own audience.
The quiet time, he said, would help him restore his perspective.
Theorists of national identity could do worse to restore some perspective than to sit through parliamentary questions on crofting in the Highlands and Islands, and the signposting for Wigtown, Scotland's "National Book Town".Refreshing, amateurish, parochial.
But it helps me to restore my perspective, and it allows me to realize that, but for the accidents of our individual fates, and because of certain personal choices of my own, any one of you might well be standing here struggling to reduce the mystery of our experience to an order of words.
– Ashwin Seshagiri And, finally, as gossip about Snapchat's refusal of a multibillion-dollar offer from Facebook continued to swirl, one venture capitalist tried to restore some perspective to the tech industry, in the form of a contender for tweet of the day: Instead of tweeting "that's not worth $3b" put your energy into building something you think is — Hunter Walk (@hunterwalk) 14 Nov 13.
At this point there is nothing as essential as an unmistakable mistake of some magnitude to restore the perspective that is needed to ensure continued success.
Strategy is about balancing means and ends, resources and interests, and the time has come to restore strategic perspective to what the United States is doing in Afghanistan.
What is good about things around you right now, even though you might be wanting the ground to swallow you up? Pinpointing some positives can help restore your perspective about how minimal the awkward occurrence is in the greater scheme of things.
Or perhaps visiting their mother restored their sense of perspective.
