Owing to patterns and programs, conditions and beliefs, we can think anything, including things that are utterly incongruent with or opposed to what is.
With issues, people argue with reality and indeed with possibility. The obvious can be in plain sight but invisible to us.
Waiting for things to dawn on some, or for the penny to drop, so to speak, is both uncertain and potentially fraught with complexity.
I mean sometimes we take risks that seem reasonable, and other times, if the pattern repeats, it can seem entirely addictive and dysfunctional.
To acutely observe from presence, we are afforded the chance to look clearly, and with a higher vantage point perhaps the solutions that we were distant to us come more into focus.
Relying on others to think, or see the world like you, is challenging for we all have a unique and individual perspective.
Emotions can cloud clear perception, and feelings can obscure rational knowing. To deal with what life presents can sometimes ask of us to look beyond our filters and obverse without blinkers things that seem to be innate to our experience.
How many of us have heard the phrase “doing the same thing over and over again while asking for different results is the definition of insanity”? Yet, we are so invested in the habitual pattern of doing we seem resistant to allow another way to live or be, all the while wishing and hoping, yearning and expecting for a different result.
Common sense prevails when we can look clearly and truly at what we are doing and be open to doing something different, be open to going another way, however small or subtle, just another way.
It takes courage and awareness to truly see what we are doing and notice what we automatically if not autonomically do as part of our ritualised routine of daily activities. Indeed, it can be startling to see how deep are the robotic actions of the groove we have run that feels entrenched like a rut that seems to keep us between lines or lanes, in places that do not, or no longer, reflect the person we now are and choose to be.
Be willing to observe, to see and to live anew in each moment for each moment is fresh and so can you be too!