Head in the Clouds

Have you ever had  the feeling that our view of things not clear, but is somehow clouded ?

It seems that we humans not seeing things rightly; we are missing something; we fail to read the signs of our times correctly.

I think we are similar, in some ways, to that guy the Beatles mentioned . . .

“Well on the way,

Head in a cloud,

The man of a thousand voices

Talking perfectly loud.

But nobody ever hears him 

Or the sound he appears to make 

And he never seems to notice . . ."

We are typically preoccupied with our own pronouncements, and unable to hear what others are saying, caught up in our own thoughts . . . head in a cloud. In that mode, we can find plenty enough of words to spout out at the world, but then overlook the value of hearing what others have to say.
We don't learn as much when we're not listening.

One thing I have managed to learn: Life is easier to manage when a way is found to see the bright side of any given situation.

There are, you see, the storms of life that hover in our expectant  paths, and they can dim the brightness of our attitude and darken our prospects.

So let’s be aware of the storms, but not allow their darkness to totally occlude our hope for brighter horizons to come.

To get a balanced perspective, we do need to recognize the good and the bad in this life. And we do well to strive at  accurately evaluating how those two realities are opposing each other in any given scenario. But other times, the good and bad may be intertwined as some kind of difficult-to-discern mixed blessing or cluster-fuhgedaboudit.

Songwriter Joni’s observation, rings true:

“I’ve looked at clouds from both sides now, from up and down, and still somehow, it’s clouds’ illusions I recall . . . I really don’t know clouds at all.”

So let us understand that, realistically, we do not fully know clouds—that is to say, metaphorically, life’s ups and downs—at all, even though we may believe that we’ve got it all under control.

We don’t wanna be stuck, for instance, on Cloud 9 when Cloud 10 might be the better way to go!

And although several hallowed traditions may tell us of an Uncloudy Day, let’s not be sideswiped by some unexpected sidewinder that could, in this present scheme of things, drench us with unmanageable discouragement.

Sometimes we catch sight of some new development on the horizon, a rising cloud that is only the size of a man’s hand.  Keep eyes trained on whatever arises, long enough to anticipate whether it will bring the needed  rain, or just fizzle to nothing.

And let us, in this complicated life, continuously  evaluate what pursuits  truly fulfill our objectives. We don’t need to be stuck, for instance, in PC mode when it could have been more advantageous to contribute whatever good we can find in this world and post it in “the cloud.”

What are your expectations about this fascinating life?

As for me, I’m hoping to, one fine day, be caught up in the clouds with the one who brought me here.

I surmise that such a faith expectation is probably the ultimate “looking on the bright side.”

Glass half-Full