Optic flow
I've felt like a passenger sitting in the car of life lately. I look out the window and stare at the scenery, and I have to wonder where the car is going.
Lately though I've not been questioning the destination so much -- if I'm in a car, I figure that it has to be going somewhere. And that's...okay. But as I look out the window, I have to be amazed at the wonders of the human eye as it gauges distance travelled. You look at trees far along the horizon, and you feel like you're moving along SO slowly. But then you switch to looking at trees right along the road, and you feel like you're zooming along at warp speed.
So which is it? A turtle's pace or warp speed? I don't know -- but I guess I can't keep looking out the window wondering these things. There are people in the car to talk with. And there's a driver that I have to stay in touch with, because He is ultimately in control anyway.
posted by Katie @ 6:48 PM
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A turtle's pace or warp speed...? Good question. Perhaps both. Perhaps that driver sets us up as individuals to have both the intelligence to perceive both, and the perspective to focus on each. The turtle's pace-the slow stuff-would maybe be house, family, kids, the stuff that matters later in life and doesn't come as a split second decision. The warp speed stuff could be your everyday or miniscule decisions that you don't normally focus on because it's a moment that passes so quickly-coffee or tea for breakfast, lunch at McD's or brown bagging it, that kinda thing-stuff with no large focus outside of an immediate decision.
(from above): "Perhaps that driver sets us up as individuals to have both the intelligence to perceive both, and the perspective to focus on each."
I like that. :)
A tricky thing, I think, is that both "speeds" are happening simultaneously. Hopefully we also have the perspective to know when to focus on one versus the other. :)
Well - that's what the people in the car are for - to share your observations about the world around you, we're all making this trip together after all, and so that would be His way of letting us observe what it is that's outside our window - while there are people making this trip with us to look out the windows on the other side of the car. Only the driver gets to see the Big Picture all the time, after all...
By the way - this is Travis. (as was post 1)
I like this analogy, a lot. Especially that both perspectives are in motion at the same time, the far away, over-arcing things, as well as the immediate things. Life is such a study in project management, eh? :)
-NC
Yeah, in some ways the analogy just fits.
So, project manager...that means that you have lots of strategies for dealing with this type of thing? ;)
Psh, occasionally. :)
It's about priorities, mostly. Get those sorted and (most of) the rest falls into place.
-NC
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