What experiences in life helped you grow the most?

I’ve recognized that with painful experiences , one either learns to adapt to some change that was being resisted or remain the same.

Pain invites one to self check , look at one’s past steps and analyze what caused one to choose direction A over direction B.

It pushes one to retrace the steps previously built and it makes one wonder what and who is really real.

What is true?

I remember being asked a question so poignant that one when answered , one had to constantly revisit any response to the question, since the answer changed depending on the lens one is looking through.

For example, each morning when one wakes up, one moves as if one’s routine was ordained.

One knows where the toothbrush and toothpaste is.

We don’t even think twice about brushing our teeth or showering and we know which closet to take our clothes from .

We know where to find our shoe, if we lose our keys, eventually , we can retrace our steps and find them. If we never find them, we automatically search for the nearest locksmith online and we may change the locks and replace them with new keys.

We have the answers and the direction to the things we do routinely. We can see our routines before we execute them.

But what happens after we close that door behind us and then head outside , onwards to another room with life. ?The same life we left inside the room behind us.

How do we know if the things we left inside the room behind us, is still there?

We’re not seeing them.

None of the five senses can validate that the things are still in the room where we left them.

Is the bed in the room we left it in? Is the toothbrush close to the toothpaste?

What about the shower?

How can we be so sure that all the things remain if we’re not able to validate them?

Who is doing the looking?

We can’t rely on our senses to validate things for us.