Food for Thought...

Currently Listening to:

Airplanes by B.o.B ft. Hayley Williams

It's a bird, it's a plane, it's Superman!

No, wait. It really is a plane.

At first glance, it looks small, insignificant, maybe even just a smudge on the photograph.

But when you take a second to look at it, really look at it, you see it for what it really is. It's more than a small gray streak on a sea of blue. It's a plane.

It weighs hundreds of thousands of pounds, carries hundreds of people all around the globe, and can even take down a tower.

But when you see the plane up in the night sky, hear its faint rumble as it passes overhead in the day, watch the quiet twinkling of its lights "like shooting stars", it somehow lacks the power and fear it can instill when you're looking up at its towering figure before boarding or when you feel the surge of force during takeoff.

Most things in life work this way. The same object, same situation changes shape depending on where you stand. It's easy to lose sight of the reality of things when you are unable to take yourself out of the situation for a moment. While it's always important to keep yourself in mind and to understand how you fit into the situation, it is equally important to look at your situation objectively.

Sometimes, emotions get in the way.

-A