Once I signed up for a paragliding class. I only got a little ways off the ground before the instructor shut us down because it was too windy. But all was not lost because I gleaned this little life lesson:
The instructor told us, to avoid running into stuff, take your eyes off of where you are afraid to go and look to where you want to go.
You go where you look. He said he had seen it many times —people focus on what they don’t want to hit and run right into it.
