"One Inch From Your Nose"

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Neil Harris commenting Discovering The Reason Why:

I've often used the analogy that when things happen to us in life, it's like trying to read a book that's placed one inch from your nose. If you're lucky you can make out a letter or two. As time distances us from events (and the book is pulled further away from us, if we are blessed) things become much clearer.