In a way, our eyes are liars.

Not in what they portray, but in the implication of their portrayals.

Our eyes highlight to us one thing, what surrounds us now.

We receive a snapshot of the current moment.

And what took me years to understand is that possibility and hope live far beyond what surrounds us right

now. And it's that pursuit of possibility that saved my life, immersing myself in the unseen.

Perhaps we were given the now,

not to subserviently accept it,

but to transform it.

I believe in our own way,

we're all architects.

Here's what I've found to be tricky, though,

as I've spent time thinking about this. What I believe and I've found to be tricky, though, as I've spent time thinking about this.

What I believe and I've come to recognize is that two things can be true at once.

First, all will technically ever have is the present.

As Eckhart Tolly explains, depression is essentially being lost in the past.

Anxiety is being fixated on the future, and that a healthy life is learning to cherish the

now.

But second is the power and control of being able to point the now

at something far beyond what our eyes convey.

It's the magic of knowing that we spend our days navigating

a world of limitation and restraint.

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