Inside Out

Sitting here.  Wondering what to write.  Wondering how to help.  Wondering is help needed.  Or wanted.  Wondering.  As I sit, I look up from my writing.  I am given a view of the outside world.  I am viewing the world from the inside out.  I consider that is what life is all about.  We view the world from the inside out.  And just as there is a window and a wall separating me from the out, so too, is there a barrier within me that colors and distorts what is outside me.

Think about it for a minute.

Not only does my hearing and my vision affect what I see, so too does my beliefs, my attitudes, my previous experiences and even my personality.  No wonder communication can be so difficult.  I define what I see by my insides; you define from yours.  These two views may or may not be similar.  Who will be determined to be "right"?  The stronger debater?  The more vocal?  The one who emotes the most?

Think about it for a minute.

Unless we are aware of this inside/out abstract notion, we will strongly defend what we see.  We will find it difficult to see any common ground.  We may determine it is not worth the effort to try.  Instead we may look for those whose inside/out is at least similar to mine.  Then we can form a tribe, a group that has bonded over our inside/outs.

Think about it for a minute.

Suddenly, we may find ourselves a divided nation, broken into tribes that have decided their inside/out view of the way things are is the way things are.  We will decide it's not worth our time or our energy to listen any more to what others are saying.  They in turn decide not to listen to us.  We both know our inside/out is the way things are, that is, the RIGHT way.  What more is there to do?

Think about it for a minute.

Now, stop reading.  Stop thinking.  And really go inside.  Go inside to that space, that quiet space where opinions and beliefs and attitudes do not dwell.  Go to that space, the real inside space.  And stay there.  Breathe.  Again, breathe.  Infinite possibilities here.  Vision.  Not my view.  Not your view. 

THE view.

Think about it for a minute.

Each of us has a unique inside/out view of the world.

In Closing,

Let each of us envision the possibilities of looking more closely, more deeply, less personally, to find a vision of THE view that will perhaps more accurately reflect the world as it really is, not as we see it.  A world of endless possibilities, that serve a greater truth than what we as individuals can see.  Perhaps we all have a piece of the truth within us.  Perhaps we also see distortions.  Perhaps we really do need all of us, coming together to, perhaps for the first time, really see what is.

Think about it for a minute...