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Hideouts!

By Bamboo In The Wind

In the olden days, hideouts were used to protect from hazards of nature or from dangers of the wild. Hideouts are often safe houses where you take shelter for good resting and secure dull moments. These are places where you express your thoughts to yourselves and bond in your close circuit. These are often quiet places where you experience growth.

Hideouts are what we choose when we feel insecure, feel stuck and need to take a breather, and have the urge to go back to the drawing board and rethink the attack plan.

Our ability to put experiences into perspective can go haywire when we misinterpret what is going on around us. When we realize our understanding is not right our first reaction is to find a hideout. Shed our insecurity in there and we start feeling a bit of relief. We breathe better and start feeling our own self and then we can think of what went wrong and what is the next best course of action given the situation we are in.

Often our hideouts are in the form of resorting to seeking someone's counsel. Emotional upheaval is much more resolvable when we have someone around us who can make sense of our experience neutrally and provide us a perspective independent of ours. Like someone showing us the mirror. It's important that experiences are consumed in their realities as against the perceived picture of the reality. The beauty of hideouts (places or people that we rely on) is that they have the power of recomposing our thoughts, understanding, and therefore thought-out responses.

One must they how to find hideouts that work for us. May they be places, books, people, communes. If we care about developing ourselves, we must know how to engage with hideouts. Being in hideouts is being vulnerable; seeing reality as it is. 

Hideout is a choice. Hideouts don't show up, not for long even if they do. One needs to know to spot those and step into an experience they offer.

And choices are always up to us.

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