You see way more in the dark!

A few weeks ago I had this status on facebook "When all things seem lost...When the light at the end of the tunnel seems off... that's not when you stop... That's when you journey further and maybe even begin a new journey... Because in the darkness may lay something amazing and beautiful... You just have to be in the dark long enough to let your eyes adjust to see the amazing things in there! further you may see thing that once scared you aren't that scary." Well face book limits you to 420 characters so I thought since this was an important thought of mine I would share a little more what I mean.

Before I go further you many notice a theme in my blogs... They all seem to say basically live life for what it is. I don't think I am being to repetitive, but rather showing you how with so many thoughts and ideas a life can be like this too. It is the guiding principle in my life. These blogs are just going to reflect random thoughts on how it works. Oh and I will toss in the occasional OMG GUESS WHAT HAPPEN TODAY BLOG as well. Now, onto the darkness.... and light of course.
    
DUE TO BUDGET CUTS THE LIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL IS BEING TURNED OFF..
     Great here you are in this long tunnel and well at first you were all excited.... You could hear and echo and it had a nice breeze. Then it just became another long tunnel and you were waiting for the light at the end. BAM lights out... CRAP all hope is lost now, you freak out, this is not suppose to happen, bad things always happen to me. So you begin to run in the darkness; trying to find or reclaim that light. What if you just stopped for a second though? Take a deep breath, then be really still, and quite. Let it all soak in. After a few minutes your eyes adjust. Now you can see in the dark. I mean you are still unsure of some things, but you can see. If you are quite you can hear things too. At first they seem scary, but then you realize that they are something interesting.
      You were racing through this tunnel just to get to a light at the end. All the while in this tunnel were some amazing things. Things that maybe you would be scared about normally, but after awhile you realize it is not so bad. The sounds can't hurt you. Neither can the darkness if you give it time. What can hurt you is the failure to stop and take it all in. Why?  Because in that tunnel was a lesson, a new opportunity, or a new outlook on things.  
        Now, after sometime you have settled in and adjusted now, you are ready to find the light again. It maybe easy it may be hard. This is where perspective come in. If you hate being in the tunnel you may never find the light. You are to busy dwelling on the tunnel and the problems it is causing you. However, if you take in what you have seen in the tunnel and put it into use then you can find the light. Once you get out of the tunnel it does not mean all problems from the tunnel are solved. They maybe or you may have new way at looking at them. Or while you in the tunnel you realized that the whole reason you were in it in the first place was because the light at the end had attracted you to it, but that light was a bug zapper or something (OK I know that was random) The point being the time you spend in dark allows you to see far more than the time in the light. After all we wear sun glass in the light because light blinds us and makes it hard to see sometimes. That's the point we are put in the darkness often to see something. If we sit in there long enough for our eyes to adjust we may actually learn something our of the darkness.
      It all goes back to giving it up. There is some reason you are in the dark. Just accept it and go with it. Allow it to let you see better. Allow it to better you. Allow it to let you find the light at the end of the tunnel.
   Don't be afraid of the dark. Just open your eyes more and see what is really in there. You maybe surprised.

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You maybe asking yourself..."Ryan, why are all you blogs about how bad things happen, but just say oh well? Has life crapped on you that much?"
By no means no... I just know that these days in our busy world people get so caught up in the speed of it that maybe they need some help. I use to be that way, but now I just let it go. I write these things in hopes that maybe you or someone you know could really use it sometimes. You may already feel this way and are glad to see someone who shares this view. You may also thing I am off my meds and need help. Either way I just hope that sometime someone can use it to feel better and change somethings

Ryan