Walking in the dark

Walking in the dark can be a painful experience. I know because I've hurt myself on many occasions. I've stepped in a hole, and tripped over something in the path. I've hurt my foot, my toes, or my leg all because I couldn't see what was in front of me. This is the result of walking in the dark. Try walking through your house in the middle of the night. You leave the lights off because you don't want to wake up everyone else. Then halfway across the den you step on a toy that one of the children left on the floor. You puff up immediately because the toys were supposed to be put away before the kids went to bed. Whose fault was it that you couldn't it across the den safely? The truth is it's not your sons fault, or your wife, or the manufacturer of the toy. It's your own fault for walking in the dark. This is something that we should learn from life itself because we start learning from our earliest days when we first learned to walk and talk my mother and father were my first teachers. Every time we learned something new it was like a light turning on so we can see where we are going. Our entire lives are a continual process of learning to do things we haven't done yet. Have you noticed that there are some of us who don't seem to learn anymore? They are just bumping around into people or situations that they just can't handle. They quit learning long ago, in fact many of us just don't want to learn from anyone. We hold on to our ignorance as though it was a badge to be proud of. We all need help finding our way through life successfully and that's not something to be embarassed by. We all need help every day we live. I was well into my adult life before I learned the value of listening to the other guys point of view. This is a key to getting along with others. This is something that we all need to have a healthy marriage or healthy relationships. Their are people all around you that can help turn on the lights in your life. They can show you how to make it through the jungle you seem to be stuck in right now. Look around your world and look for those who have already made it across to the other side. There is someone around that has already built the thing you are working so hard to build right now. Listen to them and you will learn many of the traps that you can avoid. You can still find your way forward if you can listen and learn. If not then you can continue to walk in the dark, but that is the hard way to move forward and guarantees much pain. Listen and learn and you will make it to the goals you want to achieve in life.