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Molehills are surmountable, mountains imaginary!

By Bamboo In The Wind

Mountains are perceived as tall, unyielding natural structures. On the other hand, molehills are little bumps formed by ants hauling dirt to create a surmountable pile-up. They are hardly comparable. And yet, we often see that confuses one for the other!

Many times we like to think of temporary obstacles in progress as mountains. Unsurmountable and impossible to get past. It is a perspective that develops because avoiding confronting complex matters might badly bruise us. We prefer to bury such issues under the rug of the unwanted section of minds!

By doing so, the problem has not gone away. It remains unresolved and alive. Many circumstances can bring situations that can open the issue from under the unconscious. It takes so much energy to keep it under there, yet we try to avoid confronting it and resolve it once and for all. 

That is a mountain made out of a molehill! An unaddressed emotion. A scare, a fear, an anger, a decision, an action that never was dealt with and was kept for later. 

Such inaction builds into an unsurpassable mountain of the impossible when we have a chance to see the reality that it is, in fact, a molehill. 

Molehills are small and surmountable. We need to map them and take watchful actions to work around them.

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