2. No one will see you... and that's ok

What I've learned about life, riding a motorcycle:

2. No one will see you, so don't assume that you're safe because they know you're there.

It's interesting to me how much of my sense of security is rested on the assumption that others see me. There's a healthy awareness of our affect on the people around us, but if I am relying on others' awareness of me for my safety or sense of security, I'm putting my future in their hands.

In life, if I am waiting for my life/work/ministry to be seen and validated by others, my future is directly reliant on them: their awareness, ability to respond and do so in a healthy way... That probably isn't gonna happen.

When I exist in an assumption that "the opportunity will come through him/her", I exist in a dependency that limits my world to the capability of someone else to include, affirm and empower.

One of the greatest lies that I sometimes believe is that my life is dependent on another's validation of it. If I behave as if someone else will provide my role for me, I am behaving with a faulty assumption that they have the ability to give me what I'm really looking for... my significance.

The truth is, the world is waiting for us to discover significance for ourselves and become an active participant.