Carrots are a good
source of our everyday living - an apple a day keeps the doctor away... well, what you might not
know is that carrots are good for not just our bodies but our eyes. I was
told to eat lots of carrots when I was a kid so I could see better... I had
just gotten glasses and hated them.
Here's a
quick definition:
The human body converts beta-carotene into vitamin A (retinol) - beta-carotene is a precursor of vitamin A. We need vitamin A for
healthy skin and mucous membranes, our
immune system, and good eye health and vision.
So over
the past week, I have had some good
visions.
One was
on last Tuesday in Nashville when I eyed something, didn't buy it and walked
away. It felt good not to cave into an impulse buy. That buy would've been
hard to pack, cumbersome and bothersome.
I thought about it, but nah, I walked
away.
I had
been dealing with a betrayal, a letdown, and yet freedom
at the same time with this door and I couldn't let go of the doorknob. I had to
keep playing with it for years! I needed to let
that other side know that I wasn't affected by it slides notes under the
threshold and the knocking that felt like taunting. After a few rounds about
the room, I finally did something about it. I looked the door one more time and
then the knob - didn't get scared or happy or mean then walked away.
See, I
was clinging to something that was never there: which was a loyal friend. As we've all been finding out as we get older, it's
best to have a handful of friends rather than a boat full of them. When
we were younger, we all wanted to be popular, well liked and chosen first on a team
for dodgeball. Now we want to have a few
folks we can count on.
For what
I do for a living, I need to have a lot happen, to get the project off the
ground... but not so in my mind, I like quality over quantity... so I pick and
chose what I think is best. Come up with the best vision for it, execute it and
hopefully watch it blossom. So, as I watch some of my favorite people, flower, get a "nod" from peers and
colleagues, I also see sadness - in eyes that are craving for it. There is
hunger in their eyes - you will see it in my photos from time to time... hence why I focus on it. When you are in
row double R you can't see what the
artist is doing... you just hear it. Therefore having a good time listening to it vs.
having a good time seeing it... sometimes
you will never see it but you will hear
it, and that's just about as good as seeing it.
I had
also had a dear friend call me out over not calling her back. I thought how
petty that is? And it was, and I remember when I called her out about something
that resulted in her pettiness, she saw how she was being. She had eaten her
carrots too. We don't have to be mean or cruel;
we just have to behave. We make
mistakes for sure... all day long.
But when
you commit a crime, as hard as heartbreak or betrayal, we tend to put those people in a section of hell, and oddly enough, we are sitting right next to
them. We are told "take the high
road," most of the time we do, but this time I had to light it to see my way out of hell. It was consuming me,
dragging me down and crippling me. So
fighting fire with fire is ok, as long as you are use it safely.
"Cause
only you can cause forest fires,"
said the bear.
Eyes are
the windows of our souls, yes and it's true...
we can deliver any eye we want, kind,
sad, wide, cross, wandering, and of course my favorite #sideeye.
Sometimes
when we close the door on a person, an
issue or part of life that is hazardous to our health another one opens or
becomes ajar and then you make like Bugs Bunny and eat a carrot and ask,
"What's up doc?"
