In Repair

Have you ever heard the phrase, “blinded by love”? It seems cliché and just dumb. But you know from my experience it’s true, we’re blinded by our feelings. We walk around everyday with blinders on. They’ve been put on by our experiences, and expectations and stereotypes. We really tend to see what we want to see, our what our mind sees. If you don’t believe me get a couple people in the room and Google the rabbit, duck illusion and see what people see first. It’ll be different every time. We all have blinders on and so we see things from different points of view. But do you ever wonder if you’re missing out because of the blinders? Do you ever think that I could be missing out on something amazing because I’m concentrating on this one thing? But how often do we throw caution to the wind, and go for that thing that we think could be better. Not very often. When we were kids we were taught that you can do anything you want, you can be anything, president, astronaut, policeman. Whatever. But when you grow up they say no, you can’t be this or that. So you put blinders on saying oh well they said no so I can’t. Because of this we take the safe road so many times. We do what is easy and safe and you know it works you get rewarded, you end up happy…..sometimes. But you know what taking that risk could get you something bigger, better, amazing. You don’t wanna grow up, get old and look back saying, man I wish I had done this or that! Things could have been so much better. But you didn’t, why? Because you were scared. Because you couldn’t see past the dark. Don’t sit there dwelling on what you’ve lost or what you could have had. Get up, shake off the dust and go take a chance. The most unproductive thing you can do in your entire life is sit there and feel sorry for yourself, sit there and say if this or if that. Just because one door has closed doesn’t mean that there aren’t other ones out there. You just need to stop standing in front of that one door, you need to turn around and see the ones that are opening in front of you. The 2^nd most unproductive thing you can do is lash out at someone, or something. It’s not gonna help you! It’s gonna make things worse because you’re constantly thinking about that person or thing. Sure they may feel a little pain, but in the long run its gonna hurt you more. Keep moving forward. The only reason to look back is not to wish on what could have been but to learn from the mistakes of the past.