Friday 18 March 2011

Pause for thought

From Moodscope -

Last week I met up with someone I'd been looking forward to meeting for ages. Although I thought we were both on time, she was ever so slightly rattled after finding herself in an underground part of the railway station that had brought her out at ground level a long way from where she needed to be.


The thing is (and I have a tendency to do this too) although she'd got that feeling that she might be heading in the wrong direction, she just kept going when really she probably should have stopped to take stock.


What happens in railway station tunnels can often happen in life, don't you think?


You have a nagging feeling that things aren't quite right, but you keep on doing the same old things, keep rushing on in the same old direction, when you know what you really need to do.


Stop.


It doesn't have to be for long. Often the answer is staring you in the face, but you're not going to see it when you're dashing off the wrong way.

A short pause for thought rarely hurts.