One Less Option

This thought has been in my head the past few days:

"People never take the option that they don't know about."

It's pretty simple but it is disturbing as well.

Everyone goes through their daily lives, good, bad or indifferent with the same choices, the same friends (or loneliness), the same meals, the same ole same ole. A different level of this sameness for different people but really it is the comfort of it all that is why it is continuously redone.

There are the comfortable choices, and there are the uncomfortable choices. The kind of choices "other" people make, you know the adventurous ones or the crazy ones or the dumb ones. You know the ones that are exciting or dangerous or just plain different.

Most people rarely make those choices and some do it all the time. But to these folks, it is, the same ole same ole, but the uncomfortable choices would be things like sitting on the couch watching TV or eating Sloppy Joe's every Wednesday after the news.

Now, what I mean by the statement above is that, there are options or choices that most people are unaware of. It is not even in their worldview whatsoever to even consider. Things so dangerous to their way of living and thinking, the things not covered in the known comfortable or uncomfortable choices, that they are oblivious to them.

Their minds, even given actual sight with their eyes or any sense whatsoever, would disbelieve their own senses and vehemently at that. So septic to their own thought patterns that it would be denied, explained away or even destroyed as if it never existed, if only to get back to their known choices.

Do I have examples that I am aware of? Yes.

I have these options available to me because they are known to me now. But of course, they are now in the realm of known uncomfortable choices. Dangerous potentially because of the backlash it would cause from the active disbelief of all the others who do not know those options. Vehemently opposed by those who know that the options exist but cannot have everyone knowing of their existence.

Essentially what I am saying is that if these options were known by enough people (critical mass?) then it would become a known option and maybe even a known comfortable option.

If that were the case, things would be different rather quickly. And in a good way I might add. :)

But alas, if I were to offer these options, most of all it would be a peep in a cacophony.

All I know is that the one thing you have to do is question EVERY thought you have and EVERY belief you hold. Find out the source of these thoughts and beliefs. Find out if each are real or not. Not by someone telling you it is real, but by actually finding it out on your own.

Experts are just people too, with the same comfortable and uncomfortable choices before them. Find out how THEY got their facts and make sure it jibes with all the things you know and believe. If it does not, then find out why. Don't dismiss it out of hand, but actually examine whether you have right thought or they do, or neither of you do!

In any event, perhaps another time I will actually tell you what some of those options are, but if you have read any of my previous posts then you will know there is information out there that helped me see new options.

But don't take my word for it! :)

Question everything.