Transforming Prison Into Perspective: The Undeniable Power of Reframing

Transforming prison into perspective: the undeniable power of reframing.

My prison sentence was crushing me.

I knew it had a finite number, but prison makes it feel infinite. ⁣
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I wondered how I was going to make it through. I questioned if I actually could. ⁣
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One day, I had a thought.

How much of my life will I spend in prison? What percentage of my entire life will be behind bars? ⁣
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I decided to figure it out. ⁣
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I guesstimated my life expectancy to be 84 years old. I blended family history, my personal health, and good old firing into the dark. ⁣
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I was serving a 2-year sentence.⁣
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Some quick math, and I realized that this thing that had been crushing me accounted for only 2.38% of my entire life. ⁣

This quick calculation, this reframe, wholly shifted my perspective.

2 years wasn’t crushing; it transformed into a gift.