The Window Shopper: Watching From Outside and Calling It Strength | Astrology Ride of the Day

0:00Quick heads up. I do full chart readings at iamestrologyreading.com if you want to go deeper. All right, let's get to it. The window shopper. You know the type. Standing outside the restaurant. Face press to the glass. Watch another people eat. The menu is right there. The door's unlocked, but they don't go in. That's the window shopper. Not someone who can't have what they want. Someone who won't let themselves have it. And the reason is almost never practical. It's pride. It's ego. It's the need to be right about the decision they already made. It's not wanting to admit that leaving cost them something. So they stand outside and call it moving on. Reaching out requires vulnerability.

1:02Watching from a distance requires none. So they get close and the only way that feels safe. They observe. They listen. They stay connected without ever having to risk the conversation that contact would require. No rejection. No awkwardness. No having to explain why they're coming back. Or what they actually want. Just proximity without accountability. But here's what's really happening though. The environment they left wasn't the problem. The peace. The routine. The person who just asked them to be present without creating friction. That wasn't a cage. That was an invitation. But sometimes an invitation to something stable exposes

2:03everything that's unstable inside of you. And instead of facing that, it's easier to say. I can't be myself here and walk out the door. The window shopper isn't running from the place. They're running from the mirror. Some people don't want to be part of something. They want their own something. And when they watch someone else's thing actually work, that creates friction. They can't reconcile. So they leave. And then they watch from the outside because leaving didn't make the warning go away. It just made it safer to want. What they never stopped to ask is, what does this actually prove? Who does staying outside punish? The people inside are still eating.

3:06The restaurant doesn't close because you won't walk in. The only person that is hungry is you. We do this in relationship with opportunities, with apologies we owe, with doors we slammed on our way out that we've been circling back ever since. We construct a whole narrative about why we can't go back. That when the truth is, we just don't want to pay the admission price, which is usually something small and acknowledge me. A moment of honesty, the words I was wrong. That's it. That's the door fee. But pride would rather have you standing outside in the cold. Watching through the glass, telling yourself you don't even want what's in there anymore.

4:11Pride dressed as dignity is still just self deprivation with better posture. And here's the part nobody wants to say out loud. Sometimes the windows shoppers chose being right over just being present. While they're busy being right, the restaurant kept serving. The door stayed open. Everyone inside kept eating. The person they left kept building. That's the real cause. Not the dramatic loss. Just the quiet, steady accumulation of everything that kept happening without you in it. No less self. Are you moving forward? Or are you window shopping from a distance and calling this strength?

5:14Because there's a difference between choosing not to go back and being too proud to admit you want to. One is a decision. The other is a sentence. You gave yourself. If this resonates with you, leave a comment below. Come to iMinstrologyreadings.com. Hit contact. You can leave a message there. If you'd like to have a proper conversation with me, I would like to have that proper conversation with you. iMinstrologyreadings.com. Book it. The conversation is free. The town isn't. If you want to show your appreciation, iMinstrologyreadings. Paypal, Venmo, Cash App. Thanks in advance. I'm Paul Heath. This is iMinstrologyreadings. Know that self. Balance your energy.

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