You are avoiding reality if…..

An episode of Heroes reminded me of something that I’ve seen people go through many times. Hiro had just told his best friend that he was going to die because of his time traveling, it wasn’t two minutes later he was traveling through time once again to save someone else. Later in the episode he was faced with the challenge of telling his sister that he was about to die… when the phone rang. He was on another mission to save someone from their own problems. Hiro kept going back in time to save someone that kept making the same mistake, and every time he came back to the future, his best friend would remind him that he needed to “deal with reality” and tell his sister the bad news. Hiro finally came to his senses and instead of playing “hero” once more, he just got honest and dealt with his issues through good old “communication”.

Once you’ve scaned a few tens of thousands of self-help pages and business books, you’d think this new information would change the way you live your life. Paradigm shift after paradigm shift and It seems I can still Dr. Covey shaking his head in guru land saying “Damn boy… get it together”. It seems maybe the solutions are not the solutions at all. Maybe things that seem a mess really aren’t. Maybe I’m like Hiro, chasing some reflection of myself, and avoiding something that needs to be dealt with.