Insight

LOVE this.  I knew in my gut I was done with my last SO when he spent over an hour handling every watch displayed at a mall kiosk.  All that time to get a watch < $50 - was too much for me!!!  Everything is not that interesting.

Insight may come in a flash, but it's the result of accumulated noticing--whether you notice it or not.

The 'I just knew it' moments in life are often triggered by little things. Annoyances, nuances, subtle incidentals--soft inklings so seemingly flip that we're prone to discredit them. Poo poo on that intensely intense but fleeting emotion--lovely or harsh. Miff miff on that big vision that just cycled through your consciousness. Pshaw on that white flash of passion--the lusty-love kind and the flare-of-rage kind.

But those spins and flashes and pangs are being felt because you're ready to feel them--and they matter. The trick is to pay attention to them. Imagine sand streaming in an hour glass, each grain forming a pyramiding pile of sand. Until one grain punctuates the pile and the tall triangle collapses into a flatter triangle. It only takes one grain of awareness to shift everything.

Tipping point. Tipped.

Give credit to the small stuff you see and feel.
It might be a new possibility peeking through.
Assume meaning.

-Danielle LaPorte