Are You Changing Direction - Not Course?

Ever hear someone say, "we've done this," or, "we're saying the
same thing over again," or, "we've had this same fight for the
last three times," or words to that effect ( I know most of you
never let conflict get out of hand to the point that you fight
with someone, certainly, not your mate, but let's hypothesize
because we know such can happen).  Ever wonder why it is
that when that isn't pleasant you participate in it, anyway?
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Seeing the direction as being the focus, in a slightly different
way, may help, in these times when so many seem so stressed
it makes sense to learn different approaches and see if they
will work.  If you see this situation in a slightly different
way, you begin, right away, to see how it is also, easily
avoided.  "But if that's the case, why do people not do
this naturally?"  My sense is that after you see what is
taking place in this different light, that question, which
is a good one, will seem to have a new direction to it.

Imagine that you are at a race, a foot race, and you see
the runners all poised to take off, the tension is in the
air, they're poised ready to run, and you notice one,
is facing the wrong way?  The gun goes off and sure
enough, the runner facing the wrong takes off going
the opposite direction.  A half hour goes bye and some
of the runners are coming in, and there he is, mister
going the other way, as he crosses the finish line his
timer starts, "this is the Finish line, isn't it?"  He asks
the race manager, who, perplexed at the situation
has to say, "you never crossed the start line to begin
your timer..."  If he'd been standing on the other
side of the line, who knows...running totally opposite
all the others, might've still gotten him a time.  So it
wasn't the course, it was the direction.  Not the course,
the course was the same, either way, two hills, eight
turns, 3.5 miles, either way, but the direction- well,
that had an enormous amount to do with getting
credit for the course.

Changing direction isn't hard, but the course, that's
a different matter.  Sure it's a sort of silly story, we
all know, nobody is dumb enough to run a race
backwards, but you have to wonder sometimes, at the
way folks dwell in the past, which direction they
believe they are going?