The power of observation

Morning readers,

How powerful is our ability to observe?

How often do we reflect on this great power?

With great power comes enormous responsibility. The gift of sight is one of the greatest assets that we will ever possess and yet the sad reality is that most take it for granted neither appreciating it as a gift, nor reflecting on the responsibilities that it comes with.

How much would you sell your eyes for?
1 million pounds?
10 million?
100 million?

How about just one eye? You would still have one left.

What can we observe? The obvious answer is everything. Open your eyes and there is the whole world to behold.

It is how we take in most information and also how we remember things too.

There is a lesson for us in everything we look at if we are only willing to pay attention to it.

With the great gift comes great responsibility. Do we spend our time looking at things that will grow and develop us into better people or do we waste the gift looking at things that merely entertain us? How often do we make a point to utilise the gift to make our lives or others lives better? How often do we express gratitude out loud or even silently internally for the gift?

For some people all the money in the world could not buy them sight. For others, they have it for free and spend a lifetime wasting the gift without ever having even thought about it.

I would like to end this post with a quote:

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.