REACH OUT, THEN LET THEM IN
Friday Apr. 17, 2015
Life’s mixture, experience meeting new opportunity, except when fresh experience meets old/missed opportunities. Opportunities – ubiquitous, like radio waves and airborne viruses, floating around every room at speed of a sneeze – often with as little aim or focus, they just project and float …
People never meet our precise expectations, imagination, hopes – they will surely exceed them if we are open, see who they are, what they are about. Not completely, but partially, if we let them in.
Whatever we want we can have. Whatever we give away comes back in some form – not as expected, but probably as welcome surprises.
If they let us in, we are inside their big tent – privy to all things.
If we don’t let them into our tent, everyone gets left out in the cold.
Break the ice more, often …
Mark Kolke
column written/ published from Calgary, AB
morning walk: 1C/33F, Gusta anxious to walk much longer – but with a breakfast meeting to go to I suggested we do that later … and she agreed! Imperceptible breeze, a brilliantly clear day ahead …
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