A Crib With A View

This morning I woke up with a strange image in my mind. I saw two empty cribs, one with solid sides (probably made of wood), while the other crib's sides were formed by a see-through net. The former would not allow the baby to see anything beyond the walls, the latter would. The question that immediately popped up in my mind was: "Is there a message for me, here?" The immediate answer was: "There certainly is!" And it is quite clear, too. The crib represents the human mind (mine, yours, everybody's). If our mind (= the way we think and consequently perceive the world) has strict, well defined boundaries, we  are unable to actually see what is going on around us. We  believe that the whole world is restricted to our own environment, our perspective on things, our beliefs and judgments. On the other hand, if our mind is open, with no preconceived ideas, we can easily accept to be flexible and look at the world and at people from different points of view. We only need to shift the direction of our "eyes" and we can perceive different sights, colors, actions. If you decide to live in the first crib, you'll be like the people in Plato's mythical cave (where they never saw the real world but only shadows). If you choose the second, you'll be a new Captain Kirk, who..."boldly goes..." (See yesterday's post). The choice is yours. You are not a baby who is incapable of making decisions and who has to accept what others decide for him/her. You are an adult with full capacity to make what you want out of your own life. Do I hear you say you can't? Wrong. "You can, if you believe you can" (Latin poet Virgil). The power resides all in the word believe.