The world would have been a bed of roses if people knew about these

Living life without knowing where and how we go wrong in certain instances is a very poor and unworthy way to live. If People everywhere have known and lived by these, the world would have been a peaceful and loving place for existence.

1) I walk down the street, there's a deep hole in the side walk. I fall in, I am lost, I am helpless, it isn’t my fault. It takes forever to find a way out.

2) I walk down the same street again with a deep hole on the sidewalk, i pretend i don’t see it, i fall in again. I can’t believe I am in the same place again, but it isn’t my fault. It takes a long time to come out.

3) I walk down that same street again, that same deep hole is still there, i still fall in, it's a habit. My eyes are open, i know where I am. It's my fault, i get out immediately.

4) I walk down the same street, there's a deep hole in the sidewalk, I walk around it.

5) I now walked through another street.

(source: Starting Over by Bob Gass)