We don’t lose direction. We negotiate it away.
Clarity appears when alternatives stop being ignored.
What blocks us most in life
are not circumstances.
They are our convictions.
We are convinced we can do certain things.
We are convinced we can judge situations correctly.
We are convinced that the path we are walking
is the right one —
built on correct decisions.
These convictions
can become pathological.
Pathological to the point
where we risk our own life
and the lives of others
just to avoid admitting
that our convictions might be wrong.
This brings us to a critical point.
We act from conviction,
not from awareness.
We stop asking:
- What options are appearing on this path?
- What alternatives are slowly becoming visible?
- What options are available now?
- What options should be taken
to protect what we are responsible for?
Ignoring options
and continuing relentlessly on a convinced path
can place anyone
in a position with no exit.
This cannot be breathed away.
This cannot be therapised away.
We arrive there
step by step,
through our own decisions.
We create our outcomes.
We create our worlds.
When people meet,
worlds meet.
The real questions are simple:
- Do I want to know the world of the other?
- Do I want to understand it?
- Do I want to be part of it?
Or do we choose something easier?
A surface-level encounter.
Judging the other world.
Labeling it.
Assessing it.
Without understanding it
even in the smallest sense.
This judging,
this labeling,
this assessing
is again born from convictions.
And sometimes,
while walking your path,
stories emerge.
Stories with more value
and more depth
than anything money could buy.