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Today's
Quotation:
We are always surrounded
by doors of opportunity.
That’s the way life is. Often, opportunities do not come in packages wrapped
in the colors
we expected.
When an unexpected surprise happens, we refuse to see
it
and so we miss the opportunity.
Sometimes we are so focused on a goal
far out in the
future that we do not see what is right in front of us, or
we get
so busy hurrying and rushing around that we lose all
perspective.
Anne Wilson Schaef
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Today's
Meditation:
Possibility
and potential-- this day and every day are full of both of
them. The number of opportunities that we have in our
lives is amazing, yet most of us rarely see even a small
percentage of the opportunities that life throws our
way. There are of course the obvious opportunities
such as having the air to breathe and the food to eat to
keep us alive (though not everyone on the planet has the
same level of opportunity there!), but there are many other
opportunities that are just so unexpected that we never even
see them. They come our way only to be ignored like a
twenty-dollar bill laying under a leaf. It's there,
but the leaf blocks our vision so that we don't see it and
can't take advantage of it.
Our
opportunities lie in many different places that we don't
expect them to lie in. Because we don't expect to see
them, we simply don't see them. If we're so caught up
in what we're doing and in how we think things should be
going, it can be very easy for us to miss the things that
are new and different.
I
find that sometimes I can be so focused on what I'm doing
that I miss tons of things, and that makes me sad. Of
course, being focused allows me to complete things that need
to be done, and to do them well, but sometimes I do wonder
at the cost. It's a trade-off that I need to be aware
of, of course. But Anne's right, I think-- we are
always surrounded by opportunity, and it doesn't always come
knocking in a form that we can recognize easily. For
our opportunities and possibilities in life, we have to be
ready for them when they arise, and we have to be willing to
take the risks involved when they make themselves a part of
our lives.
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