Read it slowly and see if you spot the hidden meanings.
You get 10 points if you find some of them. To understand it you’ll need to relax and slow down from the rush of internet browsing.
Give yourself a few minutes to absorb this powerful short story:
Perhaps you have noticed??
The maze-trap that binds people…
You are walking, now, inside that maze…
Looking for the exit just like the other people. But you feel curious. Looking at the walls that form the maze you wonder if there is no official exit at all…
Perhaps you need to break from the norm. Perhaps the exit is over that wall?
Some people are too busy rushing around looking for the official exit that they never even stop long enough to look up at that wall.
Others don’t even notice the wall that confines them to the maze.
Others look up and see the wall but decide against climbing it:
perhaps out of being ‘politically correct’, or ‘respectful’ to the designers of the maze (not wanting to rock the boat),
or perhaps because of the short burst of intense effort necessary to scale the wall (and life is tough enough already as it is, rushing about the maze and all…)
or perhaps because they don’t want to get their clothes in a mess in case they don’t make it over the wall and others see their failure…
In fact. They rarely stop to consider their situation… not taking the time or trusting themself enough to put the puzzle of success together… To organize their different experiences into a map of organized understanding.
So they look back down away from the wall, sigh, resign to the quiet desperation of ‘looking for the exit’, and start running again, faster, and faster, thinking that speed or struggle will give them success.
They bump into others, asking the others for the answer. Constriction, exhaustion, almost a strangulation, diminishing their energy.
They begin to walk, they recover their breath, feel more at ease and control in this moment, becoming more aware, strolling along, sometimes even with a smile, watching the others running around who are looking for the exit out of this trap.
But some accept there to be no escape, no exit, and they become cynical and negative of the people who are still running, they say:
‘Slow down or you might fall and get hurt. Why rush? We all end up the same way anyway. Nothing has lasting importance. Just live for the moment. Why be concerned? Why try? Just stick to what you know”.
Some then resign so much that they sit down on the comfortable bench. They somehow fool themselves into thinking they are on top of things, but their gaze is hazy, the fire in their eyes is dimmed, they have lost their way not just outside in the maze, but inside their mind and spirit as well.
They group together in small packs of ‘friends’ to pass the time. Looking at them you think ‘you may delay, but time will not’.
In that instance you arrive into an opening with a bench and you stop, aware of a strange new feeling that washes over you making you at once aware of Two Worlds. A flash of color and a distant sound that catches your attention. As you catch your breath somehow things are different, in you, you are different. Your mind has re-organized. You see how things connect.
Business, creativity, achievement, power, romance, prosperity, life
Politics, taxes, strangulation, stagnation, boredom, death
You sit down besides this other person sitting on the bench, and you can feel the person begin to frown as you turn to the person very slowly and frown in the same way too, as they also turn in the same way to you.
The feeling is eery as you catch eye to eye realizing this person is {first_name} negative, the projection of your negative self-image. A slow rippling shiver shoots uncontrollably up your spine from the base of your back towards your head and washes over you. A feint tingle in your hands.
In the next moment your mental re-organization is complete. That ‘other’ person is no longer of consideration and you understand the pattern of the maze. You look upwards, skywards, you feel lighter, breath in deeply now. And your mind has a completely new way of thinking.
With this new mental technology: call it Neo-Tech, you see the world with full honesty.
You see the wall that you had been running alongside, but now you look above it. You stand. You draw in another deep breath filled with power. Your eyes draw thin by your minds new focussed commitment. You feel a renewed vigor, passion, and self-assurance.
You are going to figure out how to get over that wall, that hurdle, that damn obstacle, and you are going to begin now.
Standing tall, to the heavens you express…
“I will do it, because I have chosen so”.
