Something truly new never reveals itself right away.
It’s more like:
A hunch about big changes,
A glimmer at the edge of your vision,
The feeling you’re not alone,
A familiar voice in a crowd,
A guess in the last moments of a dream,
A knot in your stomach,
Unexplainable laughter,
Goosebumps on your skin, and so on.
Your senses catch it, but your mind refuses to accept it. And it makes sense—there’s no clear shape, no stable pattern.
Intuition screams, “I swear I saw it! What if it’s important?” The mind cuts her off: “Where? There’s nothing there! You imagined it. Stop bothering me!”
The mind is busy solving standard problems; it doesn’t want distractions from what might be nonsense. Anomalies have no place in the old framework, especially if they threaten to disrupt the usual order.
What if, like a child, you just close your eyes, and the anomaly disappears? Then there’d be no disappointments, no worries, no wasted energy.
The mind demands ironclad guarantees, but intuition can’t give those.
Why? Because novelty is like a woman who needs a partner to dance. She makes it clear she’s willing, but he has to invite her.
Inside a person, two voices argue: The mind: “Why her? Are you sure she’s interested? Can she even dance?” Intuition: “Fool! Go to her, pay attention, and you’ll see.”
A blank canvas needs a brush, and stacked firewood needs a spark. Inert matter will sleep until touched by a Creator. Or its awakening will stretch out for an extra hundred years.
The most productive people are those who constantly dance with novelty.
Yours sincerely,
-Alexander
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