Good Morning,
This past weekend I camped with the Boy Scouts in a winter skills campout aptly out called Klondike. On the trip to the campsite, I took the wrong exit, leading a caravan behind me. I had to think quick to get our cars back onto the highway and took us through the Zappos fulfillment center and outlet store. The running gag through the weekend, and I suspect for some time to come will be my path to the campsite will lead through the Zappos store.
So at the end of the weekend I did just that and went back to the Zappos store. This time actually going into the store. I figured I would look for a pair of Crocs as I have been told over and over again how comfortable they were. With a 50% off the lowest price sale, I hoped to have a good bargain. Anyway, I searched the racks of men shoes for crocs and did not notice any in any size remotely close to my mine. At the end, I did find a pair of shoes I liked, but they were too big, so I looked over the racks again for these kinds of shoes. And so it happened again and again where I looked through the shoes for a specific type or kind and each time I saw different shoes.
It was as if the search for one kind of shoe opened my eyes to seeing something that I had not seen before. As if I had blinders on for only what I wanted to see.
I suspect that we all go through life with a certain pair of blinders on, and that we change the blinders from time to time as we look for something different than what we looked for in the past.
It’s when we realize that we have had blinders and start to take them off that we start to see all sorts of things we have not seen in the past. Like when you go to a place for the first time, you follow directions and focus on landmarks and getting to the destination, but ignore nearly everything else along the way. Then on your way out, when you know where you are going, you see all sorts of other things that had already been there, but simply missed.
As we go through life, we will tend to see more and more in the very same places that we have looked each and every day. We do that by changing our focus, or taking our blinders off.
It’s when we stop looking, when we stop seeing anything new, that we have come to a point where life starts to dull. It gets mundane.
By changing our focus, we can change how we see things.
And in those changes, we can experience new worlds in the very places that we have been living; in some cases, for our entire lives.
Take your blinders off and look at life through different eyes.
And enjoy what your eyes see.
Sanford Berenberg
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