Message of the Day - Not what it appears to be

Good Morning,

 

I remember back in early 2000, when I worked in Manhattan, New York, that about this time of year when I got on the Path train by Herald Square and started my trek home. People filled up the train as normal, but looked more dour and emotionless than usual. Some of them had some sort of a gray splotch on their foreheads, and they seemed to be the most indifferent acting people from the everyday crowd who took the train. I thought it was a bit weird and thoughts raced through my mind as to why this was happening. I crazy thought popped in as I remembered the movies ‘Invasion of the Body Snatchers’ and I chuckled to myself.

 

When I exited the Path train at Hoboken, New Jersey, and got on the Metro North train to my home in Middletown, NY, I saw more and more of these ‘zombie-like’ people coming onto the train. They had no emotions, except for some dour unchanging expression on their faces. The more people who came onto the train with the gray splotch on their forehead the more I thought about the body snatchers. Sure I was a grown man, but I had never seen anything like this before, and lack of religiousness in my life at that time armed me with next to nothing in explanation.

 

The train headed out and I was surrounded by what could have been an army of zombies, alien body snatchers or something. My heart was racing and I tried to avoid everyone on the train, which was not hard because everyone else seemed to do that. Then all at once, this image of reality vanished as I heard someone say something with the words ‘Ash Wednesday’.

 

Of course after I laughed at myself for the foolish assumptions which scared me half to death, I realized how easily it was to accept something as real when I did not realize what was really going on.

 

Reality is subjective, and what we see, and how we see it can all change what we are really looking at and experiencing.

 

When something does not look right, then there is a chance that it is not what we think it is. I have since learned to ask more questions and this has helped me see pierce the veil of illusion which covers many parts of our life.

 

This tactic is not foolproof though, as we both need to remember to ask questions AND we have to ask the right questions.

 

Knowing this takes time and practice and we can find ourselves asking silly questions at first, but that is okay. Asking a question is healthy and a sign of engaged curiousness.

 

Asking the right questions comes easier with learning and growing as we arm ourselves with a greater and greater arsenal of information to formulate our questions with.

 

With time and experience, we will find that what does not appear to be right, isn’t and how to better see what is truly going on.

 

For me, I know there are no more zombies or body snatchers on the Wednesday before Easter.

 

Enjoy!

 

Sanford Berenberg

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