Um, dangers of self examination.

Sometimes a picture just says too much. I was looking for a picture to depict self examination and had no idea that you could mail order your own kit with mirror, flashlight and speculum to observe the status of your own insides.

The dangers of self examination is a topic that has been on my mind lately. And the discomforting picture really expresses how I am feeling about the whole thing. Sometimes I don't want to look at myself and having someone else do it under a bright light isn't necessarily and more comfortable.

I have been given lots of advice lately and having gone through a stage where I assume that everything I perceive is narrow and self serving have often taken advice that didn't feel right with assumption that its just like taking a shot of Buckley's. However, I'm more balanced now and am starting to see that not every impulse I have is wrong and that there is a lot of self serving advice going on out there. Not that it isn't good advice, its just not good for me in my own context. Somehow there is a boundary between advice that is good for you because it reveals a blind spot and advice that is not good for you because it is a product of the other person's blind spot. Knowing the difference is the issue.

I'm also learning to be slow with advice and ask lots of questions to lead people to figure out what works for them.

So, I have come to terms with advice. I can take it or leave it. I know that a three year journey to arrive at this determination isn't much bang for the buck. But I think that its going to let me sleep a lot better at night.