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WANDERING IN THE DARK

Monday June 20, 2016

One day, waking to great surprise, to success?

Rarely does something unexpectedly become ‘spectacular’.

Sure. That’s THE moment.

What gets us to our ‘THE’ moment?

Right place, right time, karma, happy accident, catastrophe – or all of those?

Not likely THE moment resulted from any one element …

Few big decisions are impulsive – rather, deliberate. Percolated results, back-burner time, simmering. Every so often we add fresh information, evolving decisions, morphing from eclectic idea mix to smooth sauce and presto – a plan! Reduced by heat, time, mystery ingredients or seeing it from a different angle completely …

Five years, or ten, or twenty ago – further I go back in memory, the more clear I thought I was about where I was going, about how I would get there.

Been more wrong than right, more bull-headed than flexible, often extremely focused. Went fast, navigated athletically, didn’t crash into much – what was I missing in my haste, what was I not seeing?

Ouch – bumping into furniture, wandering in the dark – just as easily, some days I wake up to realize something I’ve invested much time and excruciating effort towards – became such a waste of time, effort and money. But before I trash it, shred it or beat myself up over efforts that could have been applied differently, I shouldn’t forget all the good ideas and interesting people I bumped into along that idea’s path. Those juicy moments and experiences could not have been produced any other way.

Instinctively leaping to right/best conclusions? Not often.

Everything I’ve ever done that worked out well seemed like a good idea at the time.

So did every bad idea … 

 

written / published from Calgary, AB

morning walk with Gusta:  10C/50F, mostly sunny – rested and restless (strange combo) – this strange day, when spring morphs to summer this afternoon – nice breeze, quiet streets and traffic hum muffled, just a man and his dog read for summer fun!


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