This morning as we gathered in a cramped but long wooden table for breakfast with friends, I could not help but eat my waffle but also analyze this table and what it had to do with life itself. It was one of those tables where you could easily see the other end, but if you were sitting on the same side as that individual on the other end-well-it was quite difficult to hear anything or talk at all for that matter. 

And I began to think about two things: At one point, I had this urge to stand up and actually go over to the other side to hear the conversation. However, instead I decided to try to engage in one conversation on one side and then listen to the conversation going on the other end of the table. This resulted in basically not being able to be engaged in either conversation fully.

How many times do you wish to engage on something at the other end of the table but you decide against it? And why is it you decide again it? Are you afraid of what other may think? Are you afraid that by leaving one side you may never be able to fully return to the other side? I think sometimes we look at life as this long table where we just have this notion that we have been sitting on one end of the table for so long that we cannot possible attempt to reach the other end. However, this is where our thinking is incorrect because often times we are fully capable of physically moving over to the other side of the table-but our mind and our want to be logical-that is where we are held back from entering that other side. There is no table too long to try a new position. It's always human nature to stay on that same chair-but challenge yourself to try to see things differently-from a new perspective-a new side of the table.