Welcome to Your World Within Daily. I'm Eddie Pinero.

And in this episode, we're going to talk about the difference between the reality and the stories we often tell ourselves.

And how a simple awareness of the discrepancy between the two can open some doors. So I talk a lot on this podcast about the power of story, what it means to us and how we use it to navigate our lives.

I think Yvall Harari and his book Sapiens is a beautiful job of demonstrating

this. You know, we're basically the only creatures that give our lives chasing and trying to

obtain things that are not tangible. They truly, they exist between our ears, right? If you take

the idea of religion or the idea of money, they're not things, they're concepts. If you give a chimpanzee money, a $20 bill to him or her, it's paper, right? They crunch it up and they probably throw it on the ground. What are they going to do with the $20 bill? But to us, we spend our entire lives acquiring it, we'll kill each other for it.

We're driven by these concepts. So where am I going for this? I'm going to pivot. The other day,

you know, like so many of us, and locked inside, while they're lifting some of these restrictions and stuff.

And I'm like, you know what?

I'm going to take a little stroll and I'm riding around on my bike.

And so as I'm going down A1A, which is a busy, kind of a touristy street in a lot of places in Florida,

you know, there's some construction.

So without even really thinking about it, I go on the sidewalk, and it's a pretty big sidewalk. Again, it's made for foot traffic, a lot of people. At this point, it's still pretty empty, though. And as I'm riding on the sidewalk, I'm coming up, you know, almost face to face with this woman who is scowling at me, right?

She's looking at me like she wants to rip my face off.

And I'm like, what in the world?

And it dawns on me, it's like, ah, you probably shouldn't be on the sidewalk.

I totally forgot to go back onto the street.

It is what it is, right?

I guess, I guess shame on me. But the interesting thing is when I get close to

her, I simply smile. And it's almost like the entire situation was disarmed. Now this is happening

in a span of three, four seconds going by on a bike, but I see her, you know, completely changed her demeanor, smile back at me and sort of turn her head as I'm driving by her smiling, right?

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