There’s nothing as frustrating as when you discover the answer to a dilemma has been hiding in plain sight.
Case in point…
Several months after I got my iPhone 5s, the sound abruptly stopped working. I pressed every button, checked every setting, and did numerous internet searches, all to no avail. Every now and then, I repeated all the above, but never came any closer to finding the solution. So, I eventually gave up and resigned myself to having a silent phone.
One day last summer, I made an offhand remark to an acquaintance about my phone not having sound. Without saying a word, she reached over, flipped a switch and, voila, problem solved.
I was incredulous. TWO full years without sound, and the solution was as simple as flipping a switch. To say I felt like an idiot was an understatement.
I shouldn’t be too hard on myself because, truth be told, missing the obvious is a pretty common thing. It happens to the best of us, and more frequently than we like to admit.
I know I often get caught up in thinking that things have to be difficult when in fact they rarely are. It doesn’t help that, if I’m frustrated, my natural inclination to be methodical goes out the window. It’s also not uncommon that I’ll miss the answer right in front of me because I thought it would be something else.
All I know is that the next time I ask for directions and someone says, “you can’t miss it”, the odds are I will, in fact, miss it…
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