If You Turn Your Back

If you turned your back, what would you see?

Everything...

Nothing…

Something…

Only what you wanted…

If only we had that choice.

Some people live without seeing - just a blank wall, an empty page, a fuzzy outline of what is really there. They walk through life as if it’s not really there – just a dream, just an illusion. Hoping it’s just a dream, just an illusion.

Others live seeing everything. Good and bad, they have no choice but to see what is really there. They see the fighting, the hurt, the tears. But the also see the sun, the happiness, the laughter. They feel life; they don’t just watch it from a distance, they get involved and take whatever is thrown at them, taking every day as it comes.

But what if you had the choice? The choice to only see the good things in life – the things that made you happy, the people who didn’t hurt you, the things that didn’t get you in trouble, or hurt your feelings, or corrupted you, broke you, shook you. What if you couldn’t see any of those things………

Would the world be a better place?

Would freedom exist? Because if there is nothing trapping us, what is there to escape from…???

And what if it was the other way round…. What if you only saw the bad things!?

You only saw the hurt and the pain and the sorrow and the emptiness and sadness. The tears, the never ending tears. The drugs, the alcohol, the gambling, the bullying, the whole world in the state of terror, and there’s nothing we could do about it. The happiness would be there, but we couldn’t see it. We couldn’t reach it. Like an unknown land, impossible to get too, impossible to stay in, impossible to reach. And that would be our world.

There are so many possibilities. Likely possibilities. Unlikely possibilities. Ones you have to work for, ones you have to reach out and take. Others that are a long way off. They are all there… waiting…

 But if you turned your back, would you see any of them???