Bit by Bit - Chapter 6, Part 11

Trey Smith

You hide your boat in the ravine and your fish net in the swamp and tell yourself that they will be safe. But in the middle of the night a strong man shoulders them and carries them off, and in your stupidity you don't know why it happened. You think you do right to hide little things in big ones, and yet they get away from you. But if you were to hide the world in the world, so that nothing could get away, this would be the final reality of the constancy of things.
~ Burton Watson translation ~

People tend to think of themselves as crafty. We get these silly notions in our noggins that we are smarter than everyone else and that we can pull things over other people's heads. Hey, it works sometimes. Each time it does, it feeds our egos.

But if you spend a good amount of time trying to hide things, it's shocking when they are easily uncovered. When this happens, then we learn we aren't so damn smart after all!

Imagine how much more carefree life would be if we spent next to no time hiding things...from others OR ourselves.

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