Lately I’ve noticed that we tend to live like a blind people. We are unable to see what’s beyond our future, just because the existence of the things right in front of our eyes. It could be anything – anything that halts us to see far beyond in the future. We tend to make decision by what is seen – trying to decide which of the best from the worst choices – since we’re too often doesn’t know what our real heart desire – too afraid to wait for the best to come, and with the reason of being realistic, we choose from the worst, and often we choose the worst from the bad choices. Too often we follow our flesh desires, which entrap us to the prison of the future.

What we decided in the past, create our present. And what we decide in this present time, will define how our future would be. Many of us trapped in the prison that we create in the past, and the prison seems like a ‘comfort zone’ in a way… it’s not really comfort in a real way, but it stop us to think beyond what we can see, because of the fears tricked us to be ‘realistic’. I imagine it like… we’re in the prison, however the door is unlock, but we believe we are in prison, our own mind and thoughts stop us to open the prison door and walk out… instead we stay inside while complaining and suffering at the same time… reasoning to ourselves and our surrounding… feel bitter about life, and again and again making the worst choices in life… while the prison door is actually unlock…

Only if we have the courage to open the prison door and walk out… we might not know what’s there outside the prison bar… some people are too afraid to face what’s outside the bars… so they stay inside with the seen  choices.

I feel that life is too precious to be spent inside my own prison. Somehow I feel what I have now starts to put me in the prison… if I try to break the door, I might hurt some people… the people, the material things, the situations I have now… somehow stop me from seeing beyond to the future, and stop me for being who I have to be.

It reminds me the story about the eagle that was mothered by a chicken. For so long in its life, the eagle believed that it’s a chicken, so that it acted like a chicken… and never believe that it’s actually an eagle. Only when the very hard pressure comes, the eagle pressured to act like one. This eagle blinded by the chicken in front of it. It is blinded by the environment and the seen “chicken choices” around it. It never knows that it has more choices beyond of what it knows from the chicken.

I know it’s hard to learn to believe that we’re the eagle, and not the chicken… sometimes it’s because of the fear… because we don’t know what will happen if we try to believe that we’re an eagle and start to do life like an eagle does… the fear of the unknown things ahead becomes the obstacle.

However it’s relieving to be able to see the people who have the faith beyond what the eyes can see… and it really breaks my heart to see the people I love repeatedly making the worst choices while I can see they have much better choices than what they can see. But I realize… everyone has to make their own decision… I just pray… those I love will one day open their eyes and can see beyond the obstacles that they have right now… and make a better choice :).