Protect your Position.

Protect your ally.

Protect your angels or angles?

Even if and when nobody else does or will.

Why?

A funny thing about angles and angels.

It is difficult to believe one.

It is near impossible to keep up with the other.

It is never safe to assume.

Never. Safe. To Assume.

That we have the slightest clue about what another person thinks.

There is a very slight difference.

A very fine line.

Between the two—An angle and an angel, Other than the obvious mechanics of the word. One can use one with the other but one cannot use the other with the one.

It doesn’t always work out for the best.

The Angle.

The Angel.

The this truth.

The that truth.

Your Angle.

Your truth.

The Angel.

Your truth.

Why?

Too much going on “out there” and most of us would really “hate to miss it.” What lengths would you go to for the destruction of another? Would revel to take a front row seat to bear witness to the blow up of another person’s life.

Sometimes we are trained to just go along with the program and one day wake up and ask, “What just happened?” Who even won? The fight? Who was lost or gained along the way.

Was it worth it?

Most hard won battles are hard won fights.

What happens after the glory?

Forgotten.

Opportunity.

To forget.

The opportunity.

To remember that many life stories are “housed” behind the eyes.

In some cases buttered.

In some cases cluttered.

In some cases guttered.

In some cases muttered.

In some cases puttered.

The imperative to remember that although the picture may tell one story, a whole ‘nother set of circumstances and happenings simmer below the surface that really are the story. It is never safe to assume. The bits and pieces of another person’s story.

Their life story. The story of their life.

For pretty much all of us , strength comes in accepting the so called ugly and ending up a person who can stand, stack or hack being a leader. The leader.

Without folding or crumbling in the process.Keeping it real along the way.

The real people hiding behind the eyes.

Most people.

Hide behind the eyes.

Their eyes.

Your eyes.

My eyes.

For the younger of us, there are many, many and some old time sayings that try and teach us about our eyes and what they do for us.

“The eyes are the window to the/your soul”.

”You can’t hide your lying’ eyes”.

”The eyes have it”.

”The tongue may hide the truth but the eyes—never”

”The eyes only see what the mind is prepared to comprehend.”.

”One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the bodily symbol of identity.

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I’m dizzy.

How ‘bout you?

Possible Prescription: Love the one you’re with.

After the arrangements have varied and the wide spread consequences have taken hold.

Have possibly taken a hold on you.

There are real people hiding behind the eyes of it all.

The people are all of us.

If you cannot tolerate it, stand what you see, can’t stay in your lane.

Stay your course.

Stay your whatever.

Seek help.

And/Or

Don’t pretend.

Accept the fate.

The hand you are dealt.

And get on with it.

The ability to care is a gift.

A gift.

The rest and most of us simply need help getting across the finish line. Preferably not dragged. Who will you protect? Who will be protected?

Who gets to “go” first?

Who gets to go next?

To what?

To give care.

To receive care.

To just simply,

Care.

To care. Or not to care, that is the question.

It really, really is not becoming to become a person who

bobs and weaves and ducks as you possibly blow by another in a fit of rage, worry or carelessness.

“Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eyes.”

“What we see depends mainly on what we look for.”

”The eye is the jewel of the body.”

”There is only one way to see things, until someone shows us how to look at them with different eyes.”

”Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.”

”Study me as much as you like, you will not know me, for I differ in a hundred ways from what you see me to be. put yourself behind my eyes and see me as I see myself, for I have chosen to dwell in a place you cannot see.l

Anyone have a giant headache yet?

I do.

A big one.

If the eyes are the window to the soul, who DOESN’T have work to do?

Protect your position even if and when it becomes impossible or unpopular. The first person who has to believe in what you are doing is,

You.

Putting one’s life under a microscope and putting one’s life on the line are actually quite the same thing.

The outcome is anybody’s guess, but the process is a boatload of useful information. For the greater good. Hopefully. No one really ever knows the outcome of anything.

Figuring it out, presenting it to the world can be both free-ing and a burden.

The ugly part, the ugly parts may or may not have been mentioned in the instruction manual, the life job description. May not have been nor have ever been mentioned in the life job offer.

Just for the heck of it, if you knew, would you take a job with the following requests —with your eyes wide open?……

Let’s see:🧐🤨🤔

Develop a poker face beyond all life’s possibilities,

A stone face.

Two faced or open faced?

Here we go:

Not allowed:

No reaction.

No simmering.

No taunting.

No lying.

No jesting.

No testing.

No coaxing.

No cajoling.

No bullying.

No looking up.

No smiling.

No waving.

No glancing.

No grimacing.

Dear God.

I have absolutely lost the job.

In the meantime, I hope there was some useful gesturing ☺️ information of use. Of use to someone. Anyone.

In order to get from the here to the there.

In the most possible and legal way.

Of course.📚.

Goes without saying.

Without blowing it.

Of course.

Routines of routine are security.

Expectations have a way of reigning us into the predictable because we cannot always understand the ambiguity of one another.

Not an easy task to say the least or to say the most. For most of us anyway. Worst of all, how do we know when we have reached a successful outcome. Or a not successful outcome?

Is it when we close our eyes?