I would like to think that life is a metaphor. The metaphors that one says, hears, or believes in one way or another shape not only the outcome of every situation but they shape the level of happiness and success you achieve in your life. The easier something is to understand the easier it is to come to terms with, thus the easier it is to enjoy the hidden meanings. Many times a metaphor can be more easily understood than the actual meaning in which it conveys. A metaphor helps individuals attain a goal or find a true meaning to many things in life that they may be struggling with.
Staying with the theme of love, the metaphor "Love is blind" is a perfect example of creating an easy way to say that the individuals in the relationship are truly unable to see the reality of what is going on "behind closed doors" because love blinds you from the obvious. Ironically I was just having a conversation with a girlfriend about her current relationship with her now x-boyfriend today and how it is impossible to see what is truly wrong inside until you take a step outside and look back in, this is the only true time you can see everything you were missing all along. All the small details that if you could have viewed "from the outside in" would have instantly threw up a red flag or caused a need for reflection, but these opportunities never arise until you can see it from an outside perspective.
This is just the smallest of small instances of a metaphor. One can find them in all traces and areas of life, and they make the less obvious "clear as day"
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