Realization

I found the moment on the second day when Phil starts realizing something is wrong very interesting. I think realization is the catalyst which motives us to create change in our life. Before getting out of our own cave, one has to know that they are in the cave. Of course, the path escaping from the cave is difficult. But if there was no realization, nothing is going to change. There is no end if there is no start. In comparison to my experience where I was trapped in my own false sense of reality and did not know the truth about my friend, Phil’s first realization was a bit easier to see, since he was experiencing the exact same events every day and it was not something that should be real.

Even though Phil recognized what was wrong with him, he struggled for a while until he realized that being self-centered was not going to help him in any way. There was another realization there. I liked when he finally understood that he had to be the one to make a change instead of trying to change the people around him. As I wrote in my last blog, it had to be that realized what I was seeing was not the truth, not being told by someone else, but self-discovery. It takes time to find out and accept the facts that what we experience and see they are not necessary always right. We need to take the reality and start trying to change, because in the end there is always a path leading out from ones own cave.