Light Bulbs

Human beings, being creatures of habit, have the ability to meticulously set themselves into a routine that can allow them to virtually go through their day without thinking or realizing what they are doing. Once these motions have been set and rehearsed over and over, people have the ability to do certain things, giving them little or no attention, and focus on something else completely.

Take your morning routine for example. How hard do you think about your shower, brushing your teeth, combing your hair, pouring a drink, what you are going to eat.

How about your morning commute? How often have you driven to work and once there thought "I don't remember anything about my drive this morning."

Depending on your particular job, the same can happen there. You can also have a routine for when you get home from work until you go to bed.

The proverbial Human Robot, set into action by the chiming alarm clock and set to shut down once the Solar Energy source has left the sky.

I'm not saying that these routines are bad, or misplaced, just that without properly identifying signs, they can be dangerous.

These routines allow us to focus extra energy to things that need special attention. Once well rehearsed, they can be sped up or slowed depending on if an emergency arises, or if somehow in our busy lives we find extra time.

But live by these routines to long without shaking them down and checking them for efficiency, and they can become ruts. Mind muddying ruts that can project the feeling of the "Hamster Wheel". So one needs to look for light bulbs.

The type of light bulbs that shine brightly over ones head in the instant that they realize "Hey, I got it, that makes sense, I can use that." Those type of moments happen everyday, it's up to the person to realize the light bulb moment and be willing to say to themselves, "I've been doing this wrong, that makes sense, and I need to change it." Looking for light bulbs is not enough. Once you find it, you need to grab it, plug it in and nurture it. Keep it burning with the intensity that was there when you found it.

With out care, it will burn out, dimming the corridor of the change that was being walked, leaving you lost, only to fall back to the routine, that will momentarily feel safe and familiar, but will soon become the dark rut again.