The novel "Veronika Decides to Die" by Paulo Coelho and the song "Both Sides, Now" by Joni Mitchell are both examples of changing perspective.
In Coelho's novel, the protagonist Veronika moves from feeling suicidal and disillusioned about life and love, believing that "her existence had no meaning" to seeing "each day a miracle" and falling passionately in love.
This shift happens when she tries to kill herself with sleeping pills, but wakes up in a mental hospital to the news that she although she is alive, her heart has been irreparably damaged and she has five days left to live.
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