Have blind spots gone the way of rotary dial phones, cursive writing, and handwritten notes? While many of those things that were part of our lives are no longer in use or no longer necessary…despite our fondness for things we once held near and dear, we have not eliminated blind spots.
That doesn’t mean we try to live our lives as if blind spots don’t exist because that’s far from the truth. In truth, we try to live our lives by denying that blind spots ever existed.
We don’t want to face the fact that we are all blind to certain things in our lives on the YBR. We only want to get to the Emerald City. We don’t want to be mindful that there are things in our blind spot that impact the way we drive.
If you’ve ever tried to move over the left land on a highway and either hear a horn blasting you from behind or in the last second you finally see that car in your blind spot, you realize how it can scare the shit out of you.
When your heart stops racing you wonder how you forgot to take into account that there might have been a vehicle in your blind spot.
Many of us try to step on the accelerator to get ahead of those pesky shortcomings in our blind spot. We fail to realize that no matter how fast we drive ourselves those shortcomings will always be there unless we face them.
Sometimes getting spooked by something in our blind spot helps us face reality…something we often don’t want to face. It takes a lot of courage to do that.
Along The Yellow Brick Road 