Our minds can play tricks on us. Did you ever notice that?

A man was disembarking a plane at Atlanta airport. To surprise him, his wife showed up and waited excitedly at the baggage claim. Soon she saw him making his way through the crowd. While she eagerly tried waving him down near the exit area, he seemed totally oblivious. Singularly focused and moving intentionally through the bustling hall, his entire attention was on picking up his luggage, hailing a taxi, and getting home to his family as quickly as possible. In fact, he was so engaged in his intentionality that he literally walked right past his wife, and even after she spoke his name, he barely noticed, but just kept moving eagerly and quickly toward the door. Only after she ran after him tugging on his coat was his attention brok…