A Different View!

It is like looking through the binoculars the wrong way.  I'm expecting to see a close-up view and instead everything is far away and small.  That's the way it is these days as I try to make sense out of what I see happening in my country.

What I've realized is that I expect to see things the way they were when I formed my picture of how they should be, which I did a long time ago.  It is a form of bias confirmation.  I want to validate my presuppositions, and when I see that the world today is not the way I want it to be I am at least disappointed or more likely pissed off.

Unfortunately for me, yesterday is gone and there is nothing I can do to get it back.  Like it or not, and I definitely don't like it, I am living in today's world.  So I have a choice.  I can continue to look through the binoculars the wrong way and have the view distant and unavailable.  Or I can turn it around and have a close-up view of the way it is.

For my brain, the choice is not difficult.  I live in the present, so get with the program and stop complaining.  In my gut, though, I haven't come to terms with giving up on how I want it to be.  I keep thinking there must be something I'm not seeing.

To be continued . . .