Within Reach: When You Realise …

Realisation.

What a wonderful word. It’s scary as well. But there’s more about being full of wonder than the scary thing.

It’s scary though. Scary in the sense of that dawning realisation of the condition that you’re in that you did not recognise until you … realised. I mean when you realise it’s scary because there’s the whole – what was I doing before? How did I stay here for so long? Why did I believe that? It’s odd in the sense that until you realise, you don’t realise and in that state you only go with what you know. Yet the deal of the dawning realisation is about the light shining on what had been in darkness.

Learning is all about realisation moments. Growing involves realisation moments. Realisation does not complete the process, but it’s so crucial to start the process.

The light that shines and overwhelms the darkness also offers with it good reason to believe that the desired outcome is within reach. Not within reach by our efforts, ingenuity and intellect. It is within reach by the power of that light that shines.

The gift of the wonder of realisation is the exposure to how things really are. How the world really works. How the system really operates. What the goals of the status quo really are. The concept of blissful ignorance is shown for the contradiction it is. It’s shown in that light that pierces through and refuses to let things return to how they were.

Yet just because there is a moment of realisation, there is no guarantee of change. Something else has to happen. Some other steps need to take place to truly make the most of the truth that what we look to is within reach …

… But will we reach?

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For His Name’s Sake

Shalom

C. L. J. Dryden