The Gap

The difference between vision and hallucination is action. ~ Allen Patmarajah

One of the most amazing phenomena that I am truly fascinated by is what bridges the gap between what someone wants to/should do and what they actually do.  I like to lable it as “The Gap.”

There have been scores of research in the quality of individual health, wealth, and felicity (to borrow a term from Benjamin Franklin) that show that it IS NOT the quantity or the amount of any of these that makes the biggest difference.  Instead it is the subjective measure of how far apart The Gap spans.  The Gap between what our imagination tells us we “should” have and what we actually think/do/create.

This is the reason we can observe people just barely scraping by as some of the happiest people on earth while others, perhaps like Britney Spears, can’t stop suffering despite having access to wealth, attention, recognition, etc.