the thing is, it’s not about things

To find out more, visit thewell.ca. Did you know that light pollution could kill you? Just ask the sea turtles.

For millions of years, when sea turtles would hatch at night, the way they would find themselves to the ocean, which is where life would begin for them, was to follow the light of the moon or the stars or the night sky reflecting off the ocean.

And they would be able to follow that light to find life.

It looked something like this.

They would see that light on the ocean and be able to follow it and know, in the dark, this is where we're heading.

But as coastal towns started to develop and now the landscape or the coastline was now dotted with hotels and restaurants and houses and neon lights and shopping, the sea turtles that night when they hatched in the dark saw the light that looked like this.

which wasn't actually the ocean and yet they thought it was and so they followed that light and found themselves on busy streets and in parking lots and ended up dying because they were following the wrong light.

Now, I know for you animal lovers, if I don't deal with this right now, you're just not going to listen to anything else in this message.

But just so you know, they realized this was going on, and they started having lights out or blackout times for coastal towns during hatching season.

So the sea turtles are good.

But the truth is, light pollution, or actually more accurately, light illusion could be killing you and me too.

Like it's possible that our eyes could be flooded with light and signs and things that are attracting us to move towards them, and all the while we're thinking we're moving towards life, that this will give us vitality and fullness, but it's possible that we are heading not towards the ocean, but towards a dead-end parking lot.

What I mean is it's possible for us to be distracted or disoriented or lose our way thinking we're moving towards something that will be so good only to get there and realize this isn't what I wanted.

This isn't where I hope to be.

I have lost my way.

I have become disoriented.

What I thought was true and good and best for me turns out not to be at all.

Or I thought the whole time I was believing something true and now it's turned out to be a lie.

I got lost.

I got turned around.

I think this is an experience that many of us have, maybe for a season, maybe in a situation, or we were sure we were heading the right way only to find out later we weren't, or to come through an experience and feel like, I don't know which end is up.

I don't know the right way to find life anymore.

I think it's possible that in all of the lights and not just the landscape, but the LCD screens and all of the things that are pouring into our eyes, they can easily distract us or turn us around and get us lost.

I think we only need to look at the epidemic levels.

of anxiety and depression and the opioid crisis and other addictions that are leading us to this place of we're saying, I don't really know which end is up.

To find out more, visit thewell.ca. Did you know that light pollution could kill you? Just ask the sea turtles.

For millions of years, when sea turtles would hatch at night, the way they would find themselves to the ocean, which is where life would begin for them, was to follow the light of the moon or the stars or the night sky reflecting off the ocean.

And they would be able to follow that light to find life.

It looked something like this.

They would see that light on the ocean and be able to follow it and know, in the dark, this is where we're heading.

But as coastal towns started to develop and now the landscape or the coastline was now dotted with hotels and restaurants and houses and neon lights and shopping, the sea turtles that night when they hatched in the dark saw the light that looked like this.

which wasn't actually the ocean and yet they thought it was and so they followed that light and found themselves on busy streets and in parking lots and ended up dying because they were following the wrong light.

Now, I know for you animal lovers, if I don't deal with this right now, you're just not going to listen to anything else in this message.

But just so you know, they realized this was going on, and they started having lights out or blackout times for coastal towns during hatching season.

So the sea turtles are good.

But the truth is, light pollution, or actually more accurately, light illusion could be killing you and me too.

Like it's possible that our eyes could be flooded with light and signs and things that are attracting us to move towards them, and all the while we're thinking we're moving towards life, that this will give us vitality and fullness, but it's possible that we are heading not towards the ocean, but towards a dead-end parking lot.

What I mean is it's possible for us to be distracted or disoriented or lose our way thinking we're moving towards something that will be so good only to get there and realize this isn't what I wanted.

This isn't where I hope to be.

I have lost my way.

I have become disoriented.

What I thought was true and good and best for me turns out not to be at all.

Or I thought the whole time I was believing something true and now it's turned out to be a lie.

I got lost.

I got turned around.

I think this is an experience that many of us have, maybe for a season, maybe in a situation, or we were sure we were heading the right way only to find out later we weren't, or to come through an experience and feel like, I don't know which end is up.

I don't know the right way to find life anymore.

I think it's possible that in all of the lights and not just the landscape, but the LCD screens and all of the things that are pouring into our eyes, they can easily distract us or turn us around and get us lost.

I think we only need to look at the epidemic levels.

of anxiety and depression and the opioid crisis and other addictions that are leading us to this place of we're saying, I don't really know which end is up.