the past week or so i have been having a tough time falling asleep. i'm just not tired, and i have got this hyperactive mind, and my eyes won't even stay closed. so as i was trying to fall asleep last night, i figured, you know what i need? those eye cover things.
when i was a lot younger, like maybe kindergarten through third grade, i had this fascination with the courtesy pouches that some people get on long flights or in first class or something. my grampa had tons of them since he traveled a lot for work. so i would spend so much time just sitting in his closet and going through each little pouch, inspecting each thing that it came with... you know, soaps, socks, toothbrush, and sometimes even a shoe horn. but my favorite thing, and the things i always got to keep, were the eye covers. there was one that was green (my favorite color then) and i loved that thing. funny how easily pleased we are when we are younger. so, as a kid, i would play with those things, and even use them when sleeping. but there is one time i remember that makes me laugh.
i realized that the eye covers resembled the look and shape of the visor part of a power ranger's helmet (i was a major power ranger kid) so i would wear them when i played power rangers. we played power rangers at school a ton, and one day i brought my eye cover to show my friend how cool it was. he wasn't impressed, but i didn't care. so as usual, we picked out our "enemy" and used our power ranger "skills" to take down the enemy. our enemy on
this particular day was a vacant tether ball pole. don't you love young imaginations??? before we got to fighting the ever so evil tether ball pole, i pulled out my green eye covers and put them on. i didn't care that i couldn't see, i looked like a power ranger! however, after we both yelled "go go power rangers", we charged the pole, and within about three steps at full 7 year old speed, my forehead became fully acquainted with the tether ball pole. of course my friend laughed, and i was upset, so i pulled off my eye covers. man that hurt.
how did i expect to fight that pole, i mean enemy, when i couldn't even see it?
how do we expect to overcome things when we refuse to even acknowledge them? just because we can't "see" them, doesn't mean that they're not there. in fact, if you can't see them, you're going to just end up running in to them, and it ain't gonna be pretty.
we aren't power rangers, and eye covers aren't the answer.
when i was a lot younger, like maybe kindergarten through third grade, i had this fascination with the courtesy pouches that some people get on long flights or in first class or something. my grampa had tons of them since he traveled a lot for work. so i would spend so much time just sitting in his closet and going through each little pouch, inspecting each thing that it came with... you know, soaps, socks, toothbrush, and sometimes even a shoe horn. but my favorite thing, and the things i always got to keep, were the eye covers. there was one that was green (my favorite color then) and i loved that thing. funny how easily pleased we are when we are younger. so, as a kid, i would play with those things, and even use them when sleeping. but there is one time i remember that makes me laugh.
i realized that the eye covers resembled the look and shape of the visor part of a power ranger's helmet (i was a major power ranger kid) so i would wear them when i played power rangers. we played power rangers at school a ton, and one day i brought my eye cover to show my friend how cool it was. he wasn't impressed, but i didn't care. so as usual, we picked out our "enemy" and used our power ranger "skills" to take down the enemy. our enemy on
this particular day was a vacant tether ball pole. don't you love young imaginations??? before we got to fighting the ever so evil tether ball pole, i pulled out my green eye covers and put them on. i didn't care that i couldn't see, i looked like a power ranger! however, after we both yelled "go go power rangers", we charged the pole, and within about three steps at full 7 year old speed, my forehead became fully acquainted with the tether ball pole. of course my friend laughed, and i was upset, so i pulled off my eye covers. man that hurt.how did i expect to fight that pole, i mean enemy, when i couldn't even see it?
how do we expect to overcome things when we refuse to even acknowledge them? just because we can't "see" them, doesn't mean that they're not there. in fact, if you can't see them, you're going to just end up running in to them, and it ain't gonna be pretty.
we aren't power rangers, and eye covers aren't the answer.
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Interesting how an object lesson can come from Power Rangers! I love the thought behind it though.
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