Once, I was looking for this singular screwdriver and I couldn’t find it anywhere I looked. And mind, I rummaged through everything and every drawer to get it; but sadly resurfaced empty-handed.
My father, bless him, sees me in my disarrayed state and asks what I was looking for. When I told him, he asks me, ‘What colour is it?’
And I answer him and tell him it’s yellow.
He smiles-grins a little, looks me in the eye like he knows some secret I haven’t a clue on, and tells me that there was also a purple one, which was right under my nose and I couldn’t see it even though I searched that place at least three times.
The moral is: sometimes you’re looking for something in this distinct shape and never find it; but once you realise that the shape could change, you may as well find it right in front of you, hidden (or not so hidden) in plain sight, with you not having the least idea on. You just had your sights on something too distinct.
The end you’re looking for may not be there, but that doesn’t mean that there is no end. It just means that there’s a different shape and colour to it.
So open up your mind more as I have learnt to open mine.
Signed,
Midnight Ranter (aka Ayaka)
Midnight Ranter 
What a great way to the see the world!
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Why thank you ❤
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Sometimes we’re too damn single-minded that we fail to see other ways to see things in life.
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Damn right you are! We get so driven by this almost-maniacal sense that we’re right and firm on the ways we do things that we fail to notice that sometimes, there’s more than one right way to the right and good thing.
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I LOVE your writing! This was amazing.
Sometimes all we have to do is change our perspective, look at the world in a different angle, and we’ll find something even better than what we’d been looking for.
Thanks for sharing such a wonderful and inspiring anecdote!
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Awaaah! Thank you!! You’re definitely on point there; it’s not an easy thing to do, especially if you’ve lived your whole life thinking in one specific way and then deciding that it has to change. It’s a struggle, but it’s definitely worth it.
I’m so glad you found my little tale worth it!!
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It isn’t very easy. But, the right thing and the easy thing are often not the same (stole it from Beautiful Creatures)
This anecdote was so simple and yet taught such a big life lesson!
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Well yes, but we have to choose between what’s right and what’s easy (stole it from Dumbledore)
And again, I’m pleased to hear that!
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You’re right! Because it is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities. ( stolen from Dumbledore)
( are we starting a quite thread here?! xD)
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Absolutely true!
We could go on all week with these quotes and I’d never even tire of it XD
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Quite accurate haha
And it’s also so much fun
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Agreed~
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