Your eyes do not create, they obey.

They are projectors that play the stories your mind has written.

Messengers.

Delivering pictures you've already painted.

So you win or lose long before they open, your outcomes decided long before they see a thing.

Your outlook is not a reflection of the world around you, it's a reflection of the world within you.

And I wonder how we can be so lucky as to have the opportunity to literally create

our own reality, yet we position ourselves so that we're disadvantaged. We act as though the wake

of the boat is more powerful than the wheel that steers it. We remind ourselves of the obstacles, instead of reassuring ourselves that we possess the ability

to get around anything and everything that stops us. If we can create our own landscapes, why insert

storms? If we can define our own rules, why penalize our progress? If we're capable of feats

beyond our wildest dreams, why do we instruct our eyes to see stop signs? Your eyes long to see

the world as it was meant to be seen. With its color, its fullness, its beauty, its perfection, why not give them permission?

See, there is no use for the negative. The downside brings you nothing.

There is no value to be obtained or acquired from what doesn't push you.

The solution is simple.

If it doesn't make you stronger, let your eyes see beyond it.

Re-focus, re-examine, because I promise you the answers you need are in the same frame as the things that hold you back.

The problems, they are the solutions, the opportunities, they are the risk.

Life is that portrait, but it is entirely open to interpretation.

See the same people that see beauty, that find magnificence, they will always see it.

They will always find it.

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