Most days of your life everything proceeds pretty much as expected. And then there are days when your view of reality changes. The latter is generally prompted by some completely unanticipated event.
Today I experienced one of those unanticipated events. It brought about a realization, a recognition of my own systemic inability to have seen what had always been — in retrospect — in plain sight.
The question, now that I have had this realization, is whether I can effectively act on it. The recognition does not by itself bring about the needed change.
But it’s a good start.