The Star Behind The Star

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Just so we’re clear Friend, I missed you, and I’m glad we’re together again 💯

Alright. What should we do today? I have an idea.

You remember last month, the Inspo on The Star Behind The Clouds series?

If you’re one of the hundreds that joined over the past few weeks, I recommend a once over (first part and second).

Alright, so today our weekly practice is: The Star Behind The Star. See what I did there?

⛷️ I couldn’t keep up with my 12 year-old on the ski mountain. He was cooking. Too good.

He broke away so I downshifted to stay in my lane.

Spring skiing, visibility was incredible » Totally sunny clear, not a cloud in the sky, just the sun up there, perfect bluebird day ☀️ 

Friend, I’d be a better skier if my mind didn’t always drift to Invisible World!

I can’t help it. So I took a big looping carve and gazed that massive sky.

Then did one of those breath-laughs. I couldn’t stop the smile either. I carved back to the other side of the mountain and nodded with my conclusion: ‘Boy I’m delusional’.

As in: My reality gets diluted in seductive illusions.

Just me?

You show up here, you’re bright—did you catch my illusions above? Let’s get out the rubric and check my work. Shall we?

—It’s totally sunny → Actually there is also:

• water vapor

• aerosols

• dust

• pollen

• microscopic ice crystals

• pollution

—Not a cloud in the sky → Really? This whole giant Earth and no clouds? Or am I just catching a slice of it? Is it just my singular viewing angle, just my current perspective?

—It’s a bluebird day → ‘Bluebird’ originates from the similar color as the mountain bluebird species common in the Rocky Mountains. Didn’t see one bird while skiing.

🫢 Besides that, the sky is not even blue, there’s no blue pigment. It’s just short, scattered wavelengths bending across the atmosphere. It’s a lens not a color.

—Just the Sun up there → This one’s a banger. And our Invisible World practice this week.

We talked about the star behind the clouds previously so, what about this Star Behind The Star principle?

I pointed my ski boots down and weaved across the next slopping snowy corridor.

Yeah Jonz, “What else is up there? Where is Proxima Centauri? Sirius? Polaris?”

They were ‘behind’ our star. But I didn’t see it. Not because it was cloudy and negative. Because it was so sunny and bright.

There’s 100 billion stars in the Milky Way. 100 billion. And I’m unconsciously absorbed with one. One.

And I’m all geeked-out because it’s a sunny day to ski slushy spring mediocre snow.

Talk about leaving money on table!! 💰️💰️

There’s planets, and there’s Andromeda the nearest galaxy with another 100 billion stars. And my whole focus, my whole story is, wow one star, because it’s bright. Because it’s easy. It’s right there.

I missed it all. Because I’m human. I’m in training. Still in my rookie year folks.

I get miffed at Ai because it hallucinates, but meantime I’m downright delusional. I missed the whole sky due to the shiny glare of one singular star.

That’s just like me sometimes. Is it like you? Is it possible?

The Sun is successful. It’s doing a great job 💪🥳 

Yet the Sun’s golden success actually limited my reach, my view, and my aperture for all the galactic possibilities that are right there for me, just ‘behind’ the Sun.

If I would only Look Harder 🔭 

Is it possible I’m similarly blind in my own sky? Blind to the potential in my life, in my day, in my career, in this week—even to the potential in this InspoLetter with you today Friend?

What money are we leaving on the table? You and I? Might we go farther together?

Hmmm.

Inside Invisible World the practice this week is: What sunny common behaviors blind you to the unlimited stars . . . behind your shiny star?? 💫 

Mind 🌞 

The atmosphere acts like a diffuser, like a giant washing machine of colors and light.

Even if stars were brighter, the atmosphere scatters sunlight so thoroughly that the sky would wash out to a uniformly bright surface.

This is why astronauts in space with no atmosphere can see stars (even when the Sun is in view).

Also » the vast darkness of space helps us see more not less.

On Earth, the atmosphere can be an illusory veil ⚠️ 

It’s interesting, when you’re absorbed in a dangerous sunny moment, you really need friends with divergent optics.

Maybe they’re somewhere in a parallel track, perhaps on a different part of the globe, where it’s nighttime full of stars and the possibilities are so clear to them.

And sometimes we just need to wait for the darkness.

100? I’ve been scared of the dark.

But I’m learning the darkness actually helps me see better. Is it possible?

That’s why I like traveling together with you.

If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.
—African Proverb

Soul ⚡️ 

“Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.”

—Steve Jobs

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