Is Your View Of Life Too Small?

A Bigger View Of Life Can Provide A Better Context For Living It

She talked to me for about a half hour about her problems. She was kind of everywhere but the gist of it came down to guy problems, work, making decisions that didn’t line up with who she is, and not being ready to admit what she already knows. He’s not working out. He’s been honest about who he is and that’s great, but it doesn’t line up with who you are. She’s not ready to deal with it. She wants someone to make him and her okay. Not something anyone can do.

I listened and caught an overarching theme that in the end was the bigger problem. Classicist painter Ingres would refer to it as seeing only the sublime. The only way to do that is to walk with your head raised to the sky. She was doing what Ingres advised against, she was keeping her head towards the earth like a pig searching in the mud.

Had I not been raised by a man who kept my eyes looking upward I wouldn’t have been in a place to help her consider switching her gaze. She was defining her entire life on her current situation which included one organization, a group of ten friends, and one man friend. For all intents and purposes the extent of her world was limited to that. She had created for herself a very small world. Proof of this was when pieces of it, just pieces…