A Stitch in Time (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, #27)

by Andrew Jordt Robinson

Humans seem to walk through life’s infinite variety of relationships and situations taking them all at face value. They rarely look behind the façade or the mask, where real intentions—the truth of our motives—live. And the fact is, more often than not they deny that they have any mask at all. These humans (and I do exclude you, Doctor—I will come to that shortly) believe that what they present to the world and, conversely, what the world presents to them, is the truth. It’s this belief that makes them dangerous.

know that we have grown apart and that’s as it should be. We learn what we can from certain people, then we move on after we’ve taken what we need. When we learn nothing new about ourselves in a relationship that’s when the relationship is over. Or it’s over the moment when we’re afraid to learn something new about ourselves.

So much of what we see and hear is not the truth of any given situation; sometimes it’s necessary to close the eyes and be still, to extend our awareness beyond what we’ve been conditioned to believe is our field of sensory operation. Only then can we learn the patience to trust that all the information that we need will come to us.

It is so curious how we can learn to live with just about any condition or situation if we believe we have no choice.