The Irony of Sight

… with a need to make a decision, I was determined to keep my eyes wide open and consider all the facts, every single one of them. Sure enough, I saw all the details, every single one of them, from every possible angle, all the relevant and the irrelevant, the necessary and the unnecessary, the important and the unimportant, the contributory and the non-contributory. I was awash with information, I was over stimulated, over informed, information overload did not begin to describe my situation. I was swamped, I was snowed under, I felt like the mad professor, needing to write a 10 page document but with thousands of pages of research findings to wad through to extract the relevant conclusions. With all my findings, I was non the wiser, nothing had missed my eyes, but I did not see any clearer. Decision making took back seat, becoming my secondary aim, as wading through tons of information moved to the fore. I became pre occupied with sorting through my avalanche of information and putting some order to the drum loads of information.

Inertial kicked in, with my opened eyes, I was in darkness, I could not see, I was deeply distracted. Time was fast running out for me, perplexed and in desperation, not knowing what to do, I threw my hands up in the air and closed my eyes! Immediately I saw less, all the irrelevant and unimportant vanished from my ‘sight’, the drum loads of information shrunk, my senses became clearer, my perception kicked in, my hearing was stronger, I ‘saw better! I kept my eyes closed as the light was shining through and then I heard a voice behind me. The voice was there all along but I could not hear it with my open eyes. And the voice ‘walked’ me through my information stack and helped me to make my decision, saying, “this is the way; walk in it, turn to the right hand, turn to the left“.

I made my decision, I reached my destination! So I opened my eyes. “Ah” was all I could say, my destination looked like nothing I thought it would, but the peace which passeth all understanding filled my heart. I unpacked and made my home.