black & white.

Ever found yourself at the tail end of a paradigm shift? I found myself there recently, shaking my head a bit...confused and unaware. Usually I quite enjoy having my opinion quickly jolted and completely turned around. A new perspective is always fun...

But it's not so easy having a new idea thrown in the mix that changes what you had always thought to be true, and turns black...to white. Especially when the black turned white has long since left your life with no signs of coming back. With new information comes new insight...an enlightening understanding into something that we perhaps should have seen all along, but for whatever reason...never did.

Websters says that Hindsight is..."Perception of the significance and nature of events after they have occurred". Hindsight has always been 20/20, they say. Hindsight my ass. It's just a term people lean on to make themselves feel better. It's simply what we've always known to be true, with a few new added facts thrown in. The only difference now is that we actually have to face it.

For every "I see it now" situation, we all knew. Lie to yourself if you will, but there was always a hint, an ickling, a feeling, a sense, we either ignored or chose to see wrong, a friend we ignored, a little voice in our heads we silenced. Then we get the big "WHOA!" moment where it's all very much opposite of what we have been living and suddenly we're so against at our own reality and how cruel fate has been to us.

Please.

We're never that blind.

I suppose to be fair, there are those times where it's all so well camouflaged that we really don't see it...and if that is by our own fault or the fault of someone else, or maybe by the fault of no one at all...the shock is overwhelming.

Though all of my "I never saw it comings..." I can think back now in hindsight and see that I could have..had I really, really looked.