I’m Curious
If you read yesterday’s Words on Images post about the simple choice that we make every day, how do you interpret the suggestion about accepting the obvious as the only plausible explanation?
After I wrote those words, with one thought in my mind, I got the impression that it likely implied the opposite of what I was thinking. I considered changing it, but then decided to let it go out into the world, as is, for readers to take from it what they will. We each come to our individual conclusions from a place of preconceived notions and personal perspectives that color our perceptions.
I expect some will align with the version in my head, and some will perceive the opposite.
Let me just say that I believe that there are unknowable possibilities, likely beyond imagining, available as explanation for what we sense and experience in our world, which others choose to miss by constraining their options exclusively to the one they construe as obvious.
I may be wrong.
And that’s the key.
Imagine the possibilities of embracing uncertainty.
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When I read it, I immediately thought of the stories kids tell about why/how they believe things happen. Or the Native American tales of how animals got to look the way they do, etc.
Liz
March 22, 2015 at 8:41 am
Yes, there is an underlying rationale that trumps short-sightedness and immediate gain although there are few who have the courage to follow the road less travelled these days. Some justify their madness as a form of unadulterated love or fascination for beauty undefined or even a greater sense of completeness.
Ian Rowcliffe
March 22, 2015 at 9:21 am
Cherishing the road less traveled with you, Ian.
johnwhays
March 22, 2015 at 10:09 am
Thank you, Liz. The innocence of kids’ early impressions deserve our thoughtful contemplation, for they hold perspectives that are too often overlooked.
johnwhays
March 22, 2015 at 10:08 am
You are curious: Yes, indeed, my good friend and brother, which is why at times we choose to do the other thing – just for fun or just to see what is around the corner and be surprised. We are a little like the horses; 80% routine and 20% novelty. It is a healthy balance between the known and unknown, which extends our capabilities and draws on untapped potential that is there just waiting for us to tap into. (By the way, the property coming with four of those bird feeders, is just too good to be true. I googled them and didn’t come up with any identical to yours, which are in a class of their own and ‘fell’ into the right hands.)
Ian Rowcliffe
March 21, 2015 at 1:25 pm
Celebrating the known and the unknown with you with gusto!
(I have intentionally avoided much mention of the number of times we have already needed to repair those precious feeders due to circumstances of extreme weather and comical happenstance.)
johnwhays
March 22, 2015 at 10:04 am