But
that's not what this podcast is going to be about. I toyed with the
idea of doing a video with this also and putting it on YouTube. And
honestly, folks. It's a lot of work, it takes a lot of hours to do that.
And being, this is just going to be a quote unquote challenge for you. I
don't know if it'll get that many likes on YouTube. And also, you know,
if YouTube doesn't like what you're saying they can just flip a switch
and all your work is done.
But when I put it on my website, it's there, as long as I want it.
So I'm just going to make this as a podcast and not video this time.And
this one is going to be called. What can a puddle pee UDL e teach us.
And this revelation came to me today. Although, I thought about it
before but not quite as in depth during one of my walks. Today is an
overcast gloomy day it rained all night last night it's not currently
raining so I'm not walking and sure there's puddles all around them
dodging the puddles.
And I stopped and looked at one puddle, I don't know two feet long,
two feet wide, two inches deep, something like that. And I looked into
it.
And I saw two things.Here's your challenge. Look into a puddle of
what do you see, most people will say, Well, I see gravel I see rocks I
see sand. I see asphalt. Whatever's underneath it. That's what I see.
I would bet you the majority of people say that. And I always did
too. But what about what about the reflection that's in that puddle.Did
you see that, or to just immediately go to the rocks the gravel and
asphalt, like we all do.And you have you'll notice when you look and you
concentrate your eyes on the reflection, you don't see what's
underneath anymore. In other words, you can't see both at the same time,
you have to either concentrate on what's underneath this puddle which
we all typically do, or the reflection within it.
And we don't typically look at the reflection within it.Maybe it's
time we start looking at that. Maybe it's like life, we get up and we
open our eyes, and we see what we have created which we think is
reality. Maybe indeed that's the puddle with the dirt and the rocks and
the sand and the asphalt hundred. We're not looking at the reflection
which is there, but we've trained our eyes and our mind and our body for
countless years to look just at what's underneath the rocks the asphalt
sand. Now, not the reflection within, and the reflection within is the
true identity of what there is there. So maybe we're looking at life.
Perception wise, a little bit skewed.I don't know what the answer to
this is, I don't know how you change your view, but maybe we are,
because if a reflection, or if a puddle has two things to it. What's
there underneath, which we typically look at almost instantly are the
reflection there in.
Maybe life does too. Maybe this thing we call a world, these walls
these trees these lakes. These clouds, these people. Maybe there's more
there, but we just haven't trained our eye to see it yet. Again, I'm in
my 60s, my eyes have been well framed. I mean, if you do something for
60 years, you're going to fall into an old habit real fast and it's
going to take some time to untrain those eyes, and to realize maybe I'm
looking at the wrong thing or not looking at the wrong thing but maybe
there's something more I can see there, if I can train my eyes to look
at it, I don't know the answer to this.
I don't know if that's true or not but it's a thought. So what can a
puddle teach us a simple thing like a puddle. What can it teach us.
There's a lot more to reality than what meets the eye. Yes, yes, that's a
good way of looking at it. And maybe we've been looking at, we've been
focusing concentrating on the wrong thing. And I don't mean wrong, like
we shouldn't concentrate on it but we have been deceiving ourselves
thinking, everything is what I see, but there is so much more out there
and I agree with this point, because there is so much more out there. We
haven't trained our eyes to see it. We don't know how to look at it.
So puddle can teach us a lot. So here's your challenge. Please look
at that puddle, but then look at the reflection within it and realize
when you do that, you can't look at the other aspect of it
simultaneously. You're either looking at what the puddle has got
underneath it rocks stones asphalt or the reflection within you can't
see them both simultaneously.
Maybe life is like that too. Just a thought. I thought it was, it
was pretty good I was pretty happy with that. And I'm going to put this
on my website, and also please go to we not me on YouTube for as long as
it's up again I didn't want to make a video on this because I'm sure
you've seen my ugly face long enough you don't want to see it that much
more any longer, but this is going to be only put on my website Michel
Meyer calm, and you can like and share on there.
I can't get your your your your comments. I'll be it a lot of people
haven't commented on Lina me on YouTube so, but I can get your likes,
there's a light bar share bar, please like, share, spread it around so
people can see it. So, think about it, folks challenge, challenge
yourself and ask yourself, What can that puddle teach us. Have a good
day folks peace off.