Yeah, something like that...
Sometimes, you can look across a well lit valley and see points of darkness no one else can. Pitfalls and creepers that blend nicely into their environments are "seemingly" revealed only to you. You see, it's not so much that others can't see what has been "supposedly" hidden from them. It's just that after living in this environment for so long, your eyes have acclimated and adapted to see these things clearly, without assistance. Sure, you can point them out but because it takes a bit of work for others to see them, most just walk away and remain "intentionally naive". You see they know something.
They understand that the acknowledgment of what they see will require something from them. A requirement that will add a new task to their day. They understand that they will now have to take "the long way around" as opposed to the shortcut they've grown accustomed to. Adding more work to their own set of "rules of the road". I can easily use the process of "self-improvement" as an example. One of my most precious en-devours lol Most people today live in a world where they believe "acceptance" is a finite determination not needing any further action. It's a painfully lazy mindset producing an abundance of what I like to call "adult children". Them 40 yr old mother fuckers that still live with their parents. A telltale sign is that they seem to have the uncanny ability to hold onto the twin sized Star Wars bed sheets from their childhood. You see, they happily never seem to really mature. I sigh a big sigh people. Lookey here now...accepting the worst in yourself only means that now you are aware of what you need to work on. It does not mean that your shit becomes standard issue. If you find shit on your shirt, you gonna wear it all day?...or are you gonna find yourself another shirt? I accept that I'm fucked up in my own ways but that does not mean that I'm fine with it. I just know what ails me now and why. I know that treatment may be slow going but so long as I am actively "working out" my issue, it loses it's weight around my neck and it's power lessens over time.
Is this process something of a burden? Without question...but real growth and maturity is never truly linear. Lessons can come at you side-ways. Some of them you even miss. In my youth I knew very little and the little I knew kept me care-free because not much was required of me. I was happily naive. Yet as I grew in knowledge and acceptance of a world most couldn't see...much more was added into my world to safe-guard against. I knew what needed to be done to keep my world safe and healthy. I put out little fires I knew had the determination of becoming infernos. I melted every fuckin snowball I knew would produce an avalanche. I patched every tiny fissure meant to sink my ship...the internal as well as those outside of me. Yeah, it was difficult at first but the benefits soon outweighed the burdens. To be able to see what a man or woman will do three steps before they even think of it is priceless. It's like a game of chess...that you just can't lose.
You play everyday. You get really good at it. You see where the different variables produce specific outcomes that you instinctively now use to your advantage. Even when you're supposedly being "played" by people that think themselves a little too cute by half, you now find it amusing and insulting at the same time as you watch it all play out...just as you knew it would. All because you have decided to accept this new talent...this new power. Something that now needs tending. Something that now requires a bit more from you. The more you tend to it, the more instinctive it all becomes. It becomes so much a part of you, it loses it's own burden. Some people get tired of it's upkeep so they drop it's acknowledgment all together. Thinking they can revert to being as "care-free" as they were in their youth. I'm here to tell you...fat fuckin chance lol I tried that and found myself lying more times than not...to myself. I have come to accept that I cannot "un-know" what I "know" without feigning foolishness. It just doesn't work. I understand the instinct to "revert" to what you were before after a seemingly life changing event but who you've become after said event is something you cannot undo. If you're a parent in a divorce. Guess what, you're still a fuckin parent. You don't turn 18 just cause you single now. Trust me, to my own shame, I know what I'm talking about lol You think it's time to throw the baby out with the bathwater? No, no and fuck no!!! You do your best to throw out the bad and retain the good. And guess what? ALL that maturity and wisdom and tempered grace you picked up throughout your journey...is good. So people, as easy as it is to accept our faults, we must accept our gifts. I learn daily that they better us and are worthy of our time. They are worthy of our labor. If you are holding something special in your hand then nine times out of ten the hand that's holding this "special thing" is just as special. Keep all this in mind the next time you see something others can't...
One last thing, and it's a reveal...
Usually, you keep all you see hidden and wait for certain outcomes. Other times though, you find cause to reveal what you see. Most times, you can even save a life...
~Apollo
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