Bathtub Sharks

It is a known fact that most fish will continue to grow up until the day that they die. It is also a known fact that most fish will grow and adapt to the size of their habitat. So, reasonably speaking, I could take a baby shark and keep it in my bathtub and be the proud owner of a ferocious yet tub-sized animal. But I would never do that to a shark; I would never limit it's capacity to my bathroom when I know that someday if given the right home it could grow into a 10 foot long badass who gets featured on Shark Week.

It is a little known fact that the human mind will continue to grow up until the day that we die. It is just as true that the human mind will adapt to it's surroundings, only growing big enough to fit into the confines of the space provided. And we all confine ourselves with "what we know." The only thing we KNOW is what we have experienced directly, which is often not much. The rest of our beliefs rest on inference - what we think makes sense, or what society deems as truth, or a specific dogma that has been grasped onto. And in grasping on to what we "know," we lose the opportunity to embrace something new. If we let go of our mental constraints and start to open our eyes to something new, we open ourselves to growth that we may not have realized was possible in the little bathtub of supposed truth. Outside of that bathtub is an ocean of experience and possibility.

Are you a bathtub shark, or an ocean shark?

Love :)