There exists an old Persian legend about a bug who spent his entire life in the world's most beautifully designed Persian rug.
All the bug ever saw in his lifetime were his problems.
They stood up all around him,
He couldn't see over the top of them,
And he had to fight his way through these tufts of wool in the rug to find the crumbs that people had spilled.
And the tragedy of the story of the bug in the rug was this,
That he lived and he died in the world's most beautifully designed rug,
But he never once knew that he spent his entire life inside something which had a pattern.
Even if he,
This bug,
Had even once gotten above the rug so that he could have seen all of it,
He would have discovered something.
That the very things he called his problems were all part of the pattern.
Have you ever felt like that bug in the rug?
That you were so surrounded by your problems that you can't see any pattern to the world in which you live?
Have you heard anybody say lately that the world is a total mess?
That,
My friends,
Is the bug's eye view.
And seeing only a little of the world,
We might be inclined to think that this is true.
Four Dreams of Man by Dr.
John Furby
