I was going to meet a friend at the mall but schedules didn’t really line up. I decided to drop by later anyway and to see if I could catch her. After thoroughly scanning the store we had discussed, I ventured to a few other logical places. No luck. I poked my head into a few other stores that caught my eye before heading back. As I retraced my steps half-heartedly scanning for my friend, I heard my name. Like my full name. I’m creative but I also have really good ears. No way I imagined that. “Morgan” - I know that voice. Scanning in rapid discreet mode, I still couldn’t find the person. Then my eyes clicked. A different friend was standing directly to my left only a few feet away. (She was not there when I surveyed the store the first time.) In my rapid scanning I had searched further in the store, all the way to the back wall (because that’s logical.) But I had missed who was right in front of me. How often are we straining, looking so far beyond that we miss what is right under our noses?
Photo by Marina Vitale