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LAX Freeways – Confusing Paths

Being confused and not knowing what’s going can be frustrating and irritating.

Starting at a new job, navigating your way through a relationship, or starting on a project where you just don’t know where to start.

I worked a couple of days in college at this one Ristorante Something where they served wine. I drank beer and shots. All I knew about wine was that it costs too much to get the job done.

Waiters and waitresses wore black pants and long sleeved black shirts. Each person knew how to froth milk perfectly with the Wega Pegaso Espresso machine. My two nights actually on the dining room floor was one big party foul as I poured some cork out along with the wine during the tasting, forgot orders, and messed up lattes. Funny looking back, but definitely not funny then.

At first glance, confusing or even chaotic situations are most undesirable. More than anything else, they’re uncomfortable and inconvenient. You’re sweating, freaking out, trying to keep track of 10,000 things at the same time. Yet, in those moments when the mind is occupied trying to make sense of everything, that’s when the opening is the greatest for the truth and clarity of a situation to be released or taken in.

The mind is overpowering in its effort to make sense of things. “My phone doesn’t ring on vibrate anymore. It’s gotta be the new case i bought.” Or a more pop culture reference, “Who the hell are Randy, Mary J. and Simon?! They don’t know jack about singing! If Paula was here, she’d let’em know. Shoot, don’t they know I sound just like Seal. My friends told me they never heard anyone sing like me!”

If we ever go for something big in our lives, the road will be filled with times of confusion. There will be times where our whole picture and understanding of the world will be shattered. It leaves us vulnerable. It leaves us open. Part of our old self that didn’t work dies to make room for a new self that does, based on the vision we cultivate for our lives.

A Clear Path – Maldives, image courtesy of www.devianart.net

Nothing permanently blocks the path to clarity, when we don’t make the effort to avoid and resist confusion.

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