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The Window Shopper: Watching From Outside and Calling It Strength | Astrology Ride of the Day · I Am Astrology Readings Podcast with Paul Heath

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  The window shopper.
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  You know the type.
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  Standing outside the restaurant, face pressed to the glass, watching other people eat.
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  The menu is right there.
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  The door is unlocked, but they don't go in.
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  That's the window shopper.
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  Not someone who can't have what they want, someone who won't let themselves have it.
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  And the reason it's almost never practical.
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  It's pride.
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  It's ego.
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  It's the need to be right about the decision they already made.
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  It's not wanting to admit that leaving cost them something, so they stand outside and call it movin on.
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  Reaching out requires vulnerability.
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  Watching from a distance requires none.
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  So they get close in the only way that feels safe.
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  They observe, they listen.
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  They stay connected without ever having to risk the conversation.
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  That contact would require no rejection, no awkwardness, no having to explain why they're coming back or what they actually want.
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  Just proximity without accountability.
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  But here's what's really happening, though.
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  The environment they left wasn't the problem.
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  The peace, the routine.
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  The person who just asked them to be present without creating friction.
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  That wasn't a cage.
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  That was an invitation.
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  But sometimes an invitation to something stable exposes everything that's unstable inside of you.
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  And instead of facing that, it's easier to say, I couldn't be myself here, and walk out the door.
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  The window shopper isn't running from the place.
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  They're running from the mirror.
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  Some people don't want to be part of something.
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  They want their own something.
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  And when they watch someone else's thing actually work, that creates friction.
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  They can't reconcile.
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  So they leave.
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  And then they watch from the outside.
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  Because leaving didn't make the warning go away.
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  It just made it safer to want.
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  What they never stop to ask is, what does this actually prove?
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  Who does staying outside punish?
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  The people inside are still eating.
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  The restaurant doesn't close because you won't walk in.
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  The only person that is hungry is you.
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  We do this in relationships, with opportunities, with apologies we owe, with doors we slammed on our way out, that we've been circling back ever since.
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  We construct a whole narrative about why we can't go back, when the truth is we just don't want to pay the admission price, which is usually something small, an acknowledgement, a moment of honesty.
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  The words, I was wrong, that's it.
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  That's the door fee.
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  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.
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  Pride dressed as dignity is still just self deprivation with better posture.
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  And here's the part nobody wants to say out loud.
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  Sometimes the window shopper chose being right over just being present while they're busy being right.
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  The restaurant kept serving.
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  The door stayed open.
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  Everyone inside kept eating.
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  The person they left kept building.
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  That's the real cause, not the dramatic loss, just a quiet, steady accumulation of everything that kept happening without you in it.
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  Know Thyself Are you moving forward or are you window shopping from a distance and calling it strength?
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  Because there's a difference between choosing not to go back and being too proud to admit you want to.
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  One is a decision, the other is a sentence you gave yourself.
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