Wonder at reality demands the humility to sit at the foot of a dandelion. The proud are so full of themselves that there is little room to marvel at anything else.
Thomas Dubay
Our world is a mix of both, those who look with awe and wonder at the world and those who only look in their mirror. Hopefully, many of those looking in the mirror learn to turn away. I’m one of them. As a young man it was all about fishing, camping, anything outdoorsy. Then somewhere between the ages of 18-40 years the focus was on the American dream: the career, a family, a home, a car, the pursuit of money. Seemed to always be some carrot dangling out there. I spent a share of my life vainly looking at the mirror.
I won’t list all the changes in my life which have allowed me to see life differently. But I do. I’ve heard it called finding a new pair of glasses. With these glasses I’ve discovered I know I don’t know it all, nor do I need to know it all, yet striving to become all that I can be. I’ve come to know it as humility. I become a teacher only by living as a student of life, knowing I will never know it all. Now I sit at the foot of dandelions and ants and sunrises… in wonder of it all!
4 Comments
Tom Dills
Glasses are an excellent analogy. Sometimes we can just polish the lenses on the glasses we have, sometimes we need a new prescription.
Monte Stevens
Yes, I like the glasses metaphor. I also like the idea of the mirror. When I look in the mirror I see my hair parted on my right side but you see it on my left side. The mirror does not give us the same view as the rest of the world. Have a great weekend!
Mark
I like the new glasses metaphor also. Sometimes we wish we found them when we were a bit younger too! 🙂
Monte Stevens
Yes, I could have used those glasses a long time ago!