What you see is more important than what you look at

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Back in 2007 during the lowest point in my life, I almost did the unthinkable. You have an idea. Fortunately, I'm still here alive. One simple text message came just on time to save my life. I got from my mentor and it writes, "How are you?"
When I looked at my situation then, I saw it as an end, not the beginning of something new. Very young and fragile, I was 23, what do I know about life anyway. Besides, all I knew was there's nothing more I to hope for, I'm done, walk away and never come back.
Trapped, broken, and taken hostage by my own mistakes and bad decisions, why would you want to live another day? But I lived another day. And another one. And another one.
Such miserable experience taught me a very important lesson in life: "What we see is more important than what we look at."
There's always something in a picture that we don't see—something in a misery that will eventually come handy to secure a victory. You can always look at yourself as a loser. But who among us haven't lost in one way or another? You can look at your life as a waste. Who among us haven"t wasted time? You can look at yourself as a victim or a hostage. Who among us haven't been a victim or hostage at one point in our life?
We choose to keep staring at the bad side of life. We are overwhelmed by the things and the people who hurt us. We are blinded by our disappointment and frustration.
It's easier to look than to see. Today, I am reminded of my own painful experience. What we see is more important than what we look at. Stop looking. Start seeing. You have a life to live.


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