none is so blind as one who will not see...

This is one of my favorite books on God, the universe and everything...and the source of the title of this post.  I was reading it this morning and, from the chapter titled Stalking the Wild Truth, this jumped up and hit my brain in the face:

Be more than a sixteen square person.

I thought about it, and while the many multiple branches that thought spiraled off into are impossible to capture here, the conclusion I came to isn't.  It was this:

Know when to be more than a sixteen square person.

Thanks to the oddities of my brain, I have no problem being more than a sixteen square person.  I'm the one who, while knowing that the diagram* only contained 30 squares, thought about how it would be possible to see 32, 36 or 48 squares...maybe if a person could see alternate dimensions and what if alternate dimensions actually existed?  There could be an infinite number of squares that we aren't aware of and...you get the idea.

Thinking that way is okay when needed, but maybe not so okay when it's not.

Example: 

When I'm starting to get angry at the Significant Other for not taking out the trash...

(he never takes out the trash, doggone it he is so lazy and never thinks about how I'll have to take it out as soon as I get up which is the height of selfishness and come to think of it that's just one indicator of how selfish he really is which means that maybe it's a huge mistake that we're even together)

...being more than sixteen squares is a good thing...

(well wait, maybe he was just exhausted because his commute home took extra long because of the rain and then he stopped to pick up my prescription from Generic Drugstore and the 50 pound bag of dog food that he then lugged up the stairs so maybe leaving the trash wasn't personal, just exhaustion)

...but maybe not when I'm trying to learn something...

(like the studying I still have to do for my 70-297 exam which I have to take soon and I've still got networking and security and deployment to read about and test in my test forest which by the way when does that trial version of ISA Server run out and can I download a copy of Windows NT 4.0 to test an upgrade?  even if I do I don't have the time and I still need to deploy that additional test DC)

Basically, considering every single possible possibility may not be such a good thing for me in every situation.


*you just have to get the book to see the diagram since I don't have an easy (i.e.: quick) way of reproducing it here.  the local library may have a copy.