Awareness and Making a Difference

Have you ever misplaced a wallet, smart phone, or keys? I have. We usually don’t recognize they’re missing until they’re missing and then we don’t have them. We retrace our steps through our home without luck. It’s as if they decided to take a break and go to Starbucks for a coffee without telling us. Our anxiety increases, we search our home again. No luck. We look in places where we already know the answer. Finally, we see the object we were hunting. It was in plain sight all the time. We walked by it at least ten times. The same thing happens all the time in life. We are not aware of what is going on around us. When we are aware of what is going on around us we can make a difference in that moment. Awareness gives us an opportunity to lighten someone’s burden, encourage someone, give an appropriate hug to a person who is experiencing a loss. We can do so much good when we are aware.