How blind can we be?

First off, I wanted to say I hope all of you had a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday! I know I did. Second off, I was sitting in the HUB today studying for my Final, and my brain was a thinking. How blind can we actually be? How many things go on behind our back, or right in front of our face that we never see?....or do we just choose not to see them. I think the answer to that is both, we dont see them, and we choose not to see them. And, does past factors, past events that we may have experienced influence the answer to this question? I think in ways it does.

For instance, a girl coming from a low income family, having issues guys, possible abuse, wanting to escape all this pain she is enduring. What does she do? Does she keep living this way hoping something amazing comes her way, or does she try and better herself to over come this obstacle for herself, to prove to the world, her family, her abusers and mainly herself that she is worth it, that it is possible to do this? In most cases one would hope the second choice. Not only because it sounds better, but because its more empowering, it shows that with hard work, or any work at all we can make something better out of a shitty situation. Now im not saying that this is a fool proof system, that no matter how hard you try you will over come it..sometimes it just doenst work. But the important thing to do in that case is to keep trying, you have no where to go but up right?! As nice as that second choice sounds...this person took the other route..just stick around and hope something amazing flies out of no where and sweeps her off her feet and becomes her on earth angel, her rock, her shied, her hero.

She did what she does best, found an escape route. Took someone in a vulnerable state and clung to that like it was her life she was holding on to, she basically uses that person to escape that little life of hers. You would think someone in a vulnerable stage should see this, or pick up on it as it progresses and becomes more and more obvious everyday, and set things straight. After all no one likes to be taken advantage of, in any situation. But, no this person has a fear of being alone, that she will do anything in her power to keep something, or someone around to love, hold cherish, even marry. Now the girl knows about this vulnerable persons life, shes wealthy, actually very wealthy, but, unfortunately not in the best of health. This girl sees the opportunity in this. The opportunity to move out of that little podunk town she was brought into, the opportunity to get everything her little heart desires, for it to be handed to her immediately upon asking, and she sees the availability of this being given to her long after that Vulnerable person has gone this world. Why you ask? Well, because this is how blind we can be as human beings. Now this girl will sponge off of this soul, getting everything she never had and more, only to pretend to exchange love and passion. Thats okay, because with a background this girl has, I for see things ending not so beautifully. I see poor management skills only because she will do what she never had the opportunity to do, get what she never could get, and before she knows it she will be right back in the same situation.

I know this doenst make sense..but this is just an illustration to how blind we as human beings are, how we will do anything to fill the void in life, to get what we never could have or get what we desperately need. We do this sometimes without knowing it..but i think more often than not do we see that we look the other way, we become blind just to get that moment of happiness.