The Bees of Opportunity

Deep within the dark recesses of the little stone shed in the courtyard, a nest of bumblebees has set up home... buzzing fatly and busily, their tiny furry forms can be seen amid the flowers, working steadily from dawn until dusk.  The door of the little shed is kept locked, so we were at first puzzled as to how our bees came and went, but careful observation revealed a bee-sized chink between two ill-fitting glass pantiles in the roof.

Standing in the shed's open doorway this afternoon, I watched as the bees buzzed to and fro - emerging at ground level from behind a stack of boxes and climbing to their egress in the roof.  I was fascinated that none of them seemed to notice the open door; flying to within a few inches of it as they rose to their chink between the rooftiles. 

Often, in life, opportunities will present themselves to us just like that open door.  Whether we choose to see them or not is up to us - and if we fail to notice them, just like the open door, the opportunity will close and be lost to us.  Sometimes we continue to do things the same way because that is what we have always done, even if the choice may be an unuseful one for us.  When we open our eyes, it's possible to see that there are always options in how we choose to be.