Clarity

Practicing yoga brings clarity to a lot of areas of my life. I try hard to see the other person's point of view. We all have opinions and we all think we are right. But  at times while I am focusing on trying my best to perfect a pose on the yoga mat clarity comes and it brings understanding and acceptance.  I need to be still to hear, and focused to understand, and open minded to suggestions. Sometimes I only hear part of the story and make huge assumptions based on what I believe is truth, when possibility there are two sides of the story or possibly more of the story that went unheard or untold.
Tonight I had the perfect example of not getting clarity. One of my sons has eggs for breakfast every morning, his dad is a great short order cook and makes the kids what they want for breakfast every day. This child wants scrambled eggs everyday. I buy a lot of eggs but we used a lot of eggs this week and I seem to have used the last 2 eggs to make some cookies this afternoon.  After dinner I told my son, "Just wanted to let you know you can't have eggs for breakfast tomorrow, they are all gone." I wanted to tell him so that in the morning when he came upstairs expecting eggs he wouldn't be disappointed and let that ruin his whole day and he would have time to think of something else that he could choke down for breakfast instead of eggs.  A couple of hours later my son asked his dad, "Why won't mom let me have eggs for breakfast, is she mad at me?"
This was a perfect example of not listening, or maybe not processing what was said. He just heard you can't have eggs, and his mind turned off all other information. He had to go around all night wondering why I was punishing him by not letting him have eggs. How many times have I done the same thing? Jumping to conclusions and making assumptions based on half truths. How many times have people taken what I have said or done and only heard what they wanted to hear to make it fit their needs?  I admit I am guilty of this and have worked hard to be accepting of others and myself, and sometimes the only clarity that I get is to let it go and accept what is.