"Do you think that everyone whose handled a little danger holds aggression and force between their joints and is embedded in their muscles?
There's a time and a place when those things are needed and learning when they are needed is a thing one must learn.....or that aggression and force that possesses their limbs will be overuled by guilt. Learn peace and gentleness, separate the good from the bad, balance is needed or things topple over."
"So, you're saying I need balance? Calm the chaos inside me?........can you teach me how to? To separate the good from the bad? To calm the storm?"
"Teaching-.....It's something you have to learn to do yourself, I could tell you but it's something you'd never truly understand, till you do it. I could tell you that there's a bunch of shapes inside you and you need to sort them out one by one and put them in their own boxes. I could tell you there's a safari of animals ravaging at each other and it's your job to walk through it with a net and place them all in their own areas. I could tell you there's a house inside you where the lights don't work, and you must search through it with faulty flashlights and light candles to guide the way, as you walk through it half blind.
But even if I did, I could tell you that the goal is to have the house completely lit up, illuminated in light that you can see it through your eyes.....that the animals must be separated and kept contained, the shapes must stay sorted. Do you understand?
But....these things will never stay organised, things happen and the shapes will mix again, the animals will rampage, the candles will burn out, or a window will shatter and the breeze will blow them out. It's a cycle that repeats, and as you go through it many, many, many times....you must learn to find something to hold tightly onto, something that makes you keep the cycle going, something that makes you not give up....Do you understand that?"
"But what if it becomes too much? What if the darkness is too dark? The animals too wild? The shapes too complex? ......What if im tired? What if im sick of the cycle?"
"When it becomes too much....you rest, take a break....learn not to fight against the darkness too much, don't fight against the animals, don't throw a temper tantrum and throw the shapes everywhere. Find a small peace in it....don't get too close, don't find comfort in it. The darkness, the animals, the shapes....they are not your home and you don't stay there for longer than needed, till you gain the energy back to start again. Light the candles, sort the boxes, grab the net. You'll find, you're scarred from the animals, and burnt from the candles, your fingers ache from picking up the shapes and the pattern of the box is indented into your skin. But you take a break.
And sometimes, the thing you hold onto, to not give up, leaves.....
then you find another, and again, the cycle repeats....because it must."
"Yeah......sometimes i want to throw everything away, burn it all down and start fresh, give in to the darkness and let it consume me. Then what?.....What if someone could help guide me? Show me light when all i see is darkness? someone to help find balance? to hold my hand and guide me through the chaos?"
"hm, you're not alone in that. Wanting to tear it all apart and make the pieces of your life and yourself into something else, something better.
But....I don't know. I'm a pussy. Never been brave enough to find out what happens when you do tear it all down.
Having someone assist, someone can help.....if you trust them enough to not damage the, already weakened, parts inside you, more than they already are."
"But I'm scared.....what if I fail? What if it goes wrong?"
"I don't know....... I don't know. If I did, I'd gladly tell you and save you from this spiral you fell into, but I don't, unfortunately. I can only do so much, though I wish I could do more.
The answer to your questions, you need to find for yourself. I can only tell you what I've learnt on my own journey in life....what you need to know, you'll know, eventually, in time. Be patient, frustration will only fuel the chaos in which you struggle to juggle correctly."
"Okay.....I'll try."
"Take it bit by bit. There's no need to rush things that don't have deadlines. Moments are moments, live in them. You're here, and you're safe.....I've got you."
Sleep, for now......I'll stay.... and I'll be here when you wake."
-Owl.
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