The symptom of not doing enough is common. But is the sign a real one or a perception? It requires inspection. Upon quiet, honest introspection, we find that we like bashing ourselves for being insufficient. There is a build-up of what more should have been done. The battle of satisfying our own expectations weighs us down tremendously.
Interestingly, expectations stem from our worldview. The viewfinder we use is feeble and shows us the world the window offers us. For, the viewfinder is all we know and have access to.
What if we poked viewfinders in many walls and different directions. We ought to be surprised by the world we begin to see. We find many things that align without expectations but others that won't.
At first, we might want to ignore something we don't align with. Unfamiliarity is troubling. It brings stretch to our known imagination and scares us with uncertainty when our vision does not provide signs of relevance to the world now a particular viewfinder offers.
And so we stay away from grasping the reality we see because we think it is irrelevant.
This is the step where our experience remains contracted, hence our understanding of what is suitable for us.
Most remarkable expansion happens from witnessing things we usually don't. Learning, reading, traveling, hobbies, meeting people, and catching unfamiliar cultures are fulfilling. Because they provide us world view of what we don't know. Expand our horizon of what we know and enrich our experience.
Opening more viewfinders are easy and vital part of growth. All it takes is to turn in a direction and witness. Grasp everything as it is.
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