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Often, we look for guidance in the wrong place. I am sure there are those that have stopped by The Minimalist Path and have left hastily after not receiving what they were expecting. With that, there are those of you who have stumbled upon TMP and have found a bit of guidance at simplifying and balancing your life. Either way, we all blindly search for the answer to our lives issues and, hopefully and eventually, find it.
Though I’d liked to claim to know all, I don’t. I don’t know much when it comes to helping others. What I do know though is that through experience life, listening to others, and educating myself, I am able to share suggestions, advice and ideas. Are these notions always right? Obviously, they are not. I will never be able to say what is right, what is wrong, what should be done, and what shouldn’t be done. All I can and will ever be able to do here at TMP is continue this learning process with you.
Why I write this today is because I want others to know that we are all following the blind. We are also blind in teaching others as well. For if I taught one aspect of life to you, it will not apply as directly as I had intended no matter how simple and direct the instructions were. I continue to learn new ways to improve my own life and through these experiences I am able to educate others in a minor way. As to be blind followers, this is said to convey the belief that you and I are not ignorant, yet we are uneducated with hopes of learning new ways. Being conceptually blind is not a bad thing. It is just something we all are. Through the learning process, we must accept that that which is taught can be applied, but we must apply independent of the teacher.
We are all as equally blind as visionary. We each continue to learn from others and must apply in our own fashion. If we choose to follow word-for-word, we will never pave our own path to the simpler life we desire.
David Damron
The Minimalist Path
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