How Do Patterns Happen?

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Let me just ask again, let me relive the moment to see what I have yet to go over, there’s something I had to have missed, this can’t be how this finishes… 

It is not uncommon to ruminate on/over our exchanges with life. We scan and skim for things we convinced ourselves we failed to recognize, we lay out all the facts, cross-examine, and somehow are left still with another set of collected phrases ending in question marks. We notice patterns, we say we don’t crave them, but our body (the opposite of the mind), although it can’t verbalize, says otherwise and speaks plenty. We stay around for the rhythm in action, looking to enter at some point. 

Predictions and their possibility of being real only have two sides: true or false. As people, we reject this notion, and focus on what is yet to appear; almost true but not yet false, half false, but all the way true. For some, this middle limbo is comforting because you don’t (on paper) belong to anyone in particular. When we want what has never come to suddenly make its way to us, we disconnect with patterns’ teachings. Without giving time to what we want to see change from, lessons get left. I was reminded yesterday of a quote I heard a while back. In that era, I didn’t feel like I needed it then, but it was brought up again. It goes, “don’t put all your eggs in one basket”. This roughly translates to: 

a. if you invest all your time in one lane, you’ll forget about the rest of your surroundings 

b. losing sight of your sense of choice is easy when you give all your time to the one-dimensional 

c. you get nothing back when you’re the only one pulling

d. no one gets anything for being a fool 

e. hyper fixation will make you lose opportunities for no good reason 

f. you don’t want to get stuck with what you could have changed forever ago

g. no one gets a trophy for holding out with no plan

h. be careful of being so sure with such little proof 

i. when you realize what you’re getting in return, you’ll eventually hear what you refuse to come to terms with

j. time only gets more expensive with age

We don’t want our own patterns to be designated / classified as stone. At our core, we know where our loyalty is maintained; who else is keeping this up besides you? Answering the question, Who do you choose?, happens and unfolds without much rocky deliberation. With our behaviors, we have a deep familiarity with where we want to stay and why. Patterns don’t just come out the blue, they spread their seed and watch how you water. They know the amount of minutes you spend in the garden, how gentle your hands are when leaves sprout and peek out the ground, they know how careful you try to be when they need to be positioned closer to the sun. Patterns or ‘something serving as a model’ means tending to what we give precedence to. 

Knowing patterns occurs when we sense what is out of order. Once we grow conscious of what is and not in place, we see what was there prior and the whole time… 

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