Many live within a bubble: they can only see what they can see. How much can you see when you are locked in a room with only one window looking over a back yard? If left there for a long time many, who have not previously experienced much in life, will develop a picture of hopelessness and helplessness.
Of course most of you do not live in a locked room. But many of you do in deed lock yourselves away, not in a locked room but in a locked mind. By thinking and doing what you have always thought and done, day after day and by never doing or experiencing anything new and by never challenging your thought processes, you just cannot see reality; “you get what you’ve always got if you do what you’ve always done.”
The inability to see reality, when locked in a bubble, is not the fault of the person; that is reality to them! The fault this person has is in ‘not’ accepting that life ‘can’ change and in ‘not’ admitting to fear that leads to the inability to take a risk.
Change: I heard this many moons ago: There is only one thing you can change and that is yourself and there is only one thing you can change in yourself and that is the perception of reality. You can’t change the world or other people or even how they see you.
To change your perception of reality means you must experience and learn new things. This means taking risks. You need to find yourself a buddy: someone who will help you through any risks that you may have to face up to. The good news is that what you thought was risky often just isn’t. The biggest risk is recognising that you have got it (life) wrong: the risk of admission. Once you learn to forgive yourself and that you do not have to defend yourself, you are set free to move on. Everyone makes mistakes, just admit them and start experiencing a new life: get out of your existing bubble by totally bursting it!