Usually I know my way pretty well in wherever I want to go though I do not have good sense of direction. Even for places that I haven't been, I can still find my way there if I get sufficient instructions plus a map prior my journey, as long as I've figured out what my destination is.
But sometimes certain events do happen unexpectedly and create hurdles for me in continuing to getting closer to my destination. One night while on my way to somewhere, all of a sudden there was a power outage. All streetlights went off. I had no idea where I was and how long more to get to my destination. I couldn't even seek help because the place was remote and there was no one else around. Needless to say I was petrified for the first twenty seconds. Even after calming myself down I was daunting still and even feeling pusillanimous to work out what was I supposed to do. Though vaguely I could remember the direction from my last peep from the map, I couldn't move my feet. At this time, some lights shone, distantly. Maybe it was the moonlight, maybe it was from a far away neighbourhood or it could possibly be the aurora. But the lights amazingly helped me to be able to see my way. I was back on my journey 5 minutes later a bit more confident this time.
I like to examine my thoughts a little. No, no sophistication here. Just some mind examination and reflection to find out whether am I on the right track for personal development. But even if I look at the mirror, what it reflects is just one side of me. This is because we only have a pair of eyes in front. Sometimes with the aid of two mirrors (mirror reflecting on the other), we can view our back side. But we can hardly view the whole self at the same time even with more mirrors. There is a good solution for this. We can either film ourselves or let someone films us (in other words, listen to opinions from someone else). Yes, no doubt some opinions can be a bit bias. Nevertheless, I find all these feedbacks really helpful. For opinions that are a bit judgmental and bigoted, I just basically ignore them. This is when the filtering process takes place. But I truthfully am very grateful and appreciate all sides of opinions from people. I learn to know many aspects of myself through them.
Thanks for sparing the illumination, H. and AA when I was finding my way. Greatly appreciate it. The light of the aurora is indeed so breathtakingly beautiful. *grin*
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AA read this post and we had a chat online few hours later after this post was put up. She said this "Sometimes you need someone to slap some sense into you...". I really like this. Although she might be a bit bold, she really hit the bull's eye and her point was spot on. Her remark made me think of this and thus I responded: Gentle opinion is like the aurora light shining in the darkness. But criticism or strong opinion is equally cool too because it's just like a sword cutting weeds/whatever we want to get rid of (ignorance). She loves this analogy. :)
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