Meditation In a Toolshed

In this article Lewis points out our tendency in modern society to say that an outside opinion is better than an inside one. His illustration is of a beam of light poking into a comletely dark toolshed. If you look along it you can see the outside of the barn, trees and the sun. If you lood at it you observe the beam itself, the particles of dust in it and such. You observed different things just as you do looking at or along various things in our world. We have come to trust so called "experts" that are outside the experience. Lewis brings up that we consider psychologists experts on love and not lovers.

In high school I had the typical experience of giving advice to my best friends on their relationships and love interests. I was an outside opinion looking at the relationship, and my friend was certainly looking along. I think this illustrates Lewis' point well because we both had different but important insights on the matter that the other wouldn't have come up with. Looking from the outside I couldn't really know how my friend feels inside about the girl in question. He on the otherhand needed a viewpoint looking at the relationship from the outside to give an unbiased opinion on wether the relationship was healthy, was it going to last, and was he really happier and a better person then before the relationship. There are important points from looking at and looking along. I see that this is the main point Lewis is making and wholeheartedly agree.