When we are born, if one was to consider it darkness just speaking of comparing something here. We know nothing about anything. Educational things are not in our scope or ability of thinking or understanding. Is that not a dark room mentally? We start our lives in theΒ dark and advance to death trying to find light.
What is that light? It is understanding of something that makes us see more than we knew.Β That was a bright idea, now I see the light, turn on the light. A juggler learns to juggle two stones and sees that it is possible to juggle three what comes to light invariably turns on a light which shows there is more to learn.
Incredibly darkness is addicting as milk to the baby. Darkness breads, spreads and engulfs us as a captured animal in a cage. The longer in the cage the easier it is to adapt to the surrounding environment. In time we grow to accept darkness and find that which is around us is all there is. Contentment and satisfaction become all we know. Laziness and darkness fill the soul would be one way of looking at it.
When someone leaves the door open or throws a little light which is easy to see when in the dark looking out. Just as the wild animal is realized from the cage, he is so happy to be out and free he runs and plays. Just like the wild animal is we are the same way we get a little light and so happy to have that we are now content with a little light and as in the darkness held us, we just stepped from darkness and were willing to accept that as the total package of our existence.
Contentment and ignorance are just another cage. The only way to get out of that cage is want to be out of that cage. The darkness is just as profound here as back in the darkness. Contentment and satisfaction just reached anotherΒ level is all.
To get from where we are to where we want to be is just like being in the dark room and seeing light. We have to want that light. If you want to be a teacher, a scientist, an accountant, a doctor of attorney is the same as looking to the light. Put your eyes on it and go toward it just like you have now learned from darkness to light.
Just like the darkness has chairs, tables and obstacles in the way when you see the goal letting other put stumbling blocks in front of the light is no different than this.
We each have a cage, a darkness for sure but advancing becomes ours not always the same for friends and family but that light is shining and is out there just as sure. How bright that light is becomes the same cage as before. Contentment and satisfaction have no limits until we set them. Because you became a nurse does not mean you cannot become a doctor. When a doctor is the same thing.
When you see an animal in a cage, remind yourself that at one time you were in that cage. The bars that hold him are no stronger than those that hold you. Remember satisfaction and contentment breads laziness and can grow in the light the same way it did in the dark.
A Messenger,
Verl K.