If You Prefer Spirals
If you prefer spirals to circles...
Be mindful not to get trapped in other people's loops of suffering.
On the other hand, if you prefer loops and circles, it's totally fine to vigorously enjoy the entanglement, the confusion, and the feeling of helplessness.
If this be your choice, don't let anyone tell you that you needn't suffer!
It is your right to suffer, if that is what you wish to do!
Furthermore, you could put on a happy facade to present publicly, to your peers.
It is quite unhealthy, and destructive (for you), to do so, but hey! You do have the right to be a pretender!
If that be your choice, then take the little energy you have left (after all, suffering can be so exhausting) and focus it on maintaining that pleasant mask.... polish it well, make sure it's nice and shiny!
However, if you prefer spirals...
Be mindful not to get trapped in other people's loops of suffering.
Text: Sabina Nore
Drawing (small detail): Sabina Nore
One day a young boy asked his father, what is the value of his life.
Instead of answering, the father told his son to take this rock and go sell it at a market. If anybody ask the price, raise two fingers and don't say anything.
The boy then went to the market, and a woman asked “How much is this rock, I want to put it in my garden?” The boy didn't say anything and raised up two fingers, and the woman said "$2? I'll take it!"
And the boy went home and told his father a woman wants to buy this rock for $2 The father them said, "I want you to take this rock to a museum. If anybody wants to buy it don't say a word and just put up two fingers."
The boy then went to the museum and a man wanted to buy the rock. The boy didn't say a word and just put up two fingers, and the man said "$200? I'll take it!"
The boy was shocked and went running home and told his father a man wants to buy this rock for $200! His father then said, "Son, the last place I want you to take this rock is to a precious stone store. Show it to the owner and don't say a word and if he ask the price just put up two fingers."
The son then went to a precious stone store. He showed the rock to the owner. "Where did you find this stone! It is one of the most rarest stones in the world! I must have it! How much would you sell it for?" The boy put up two fingers and the man said "I'll take it for $200,000!" The boy not knowing what to say, ran at home to his father.
Father there's a man that wants to buy the stone for $200,000! His farther than said “Son, do you know the value of your life now?”
"You see… it doesn't matter where you come from, where you're born, the color of your skin, or how much money you were born into. It matters where you decide to place yourself, the people you surround yourself with and how you choose to carry yourself.
Your may have lived your whole life thinking that you were a $2 stone. Your may have lived your whole life surrounded by people that saw your worth for only $2. But everybody has a diamond inside them. And we can choose to surround ourselves with people that see our value and see the diamond inside of us. We can choose to put ourselves in a market or put ourselves in a precious stone store. And you can also choose to see the value in other people. You can help other people see the diamond inside of them.
Choose the people you surround yourself wisely. That can make all the difference in your life."
Story by Sean Buranahiran
Very useful contemplation and reminder, and beautifully said Sabina. Knowing from my praxis it is quite a frequent behaviour by people who let themselves dragged into someone else's confusion, illusions and games. Ocassionally it can happen to almost everyone. The danger is when it becomes a lifestyle. It is never enough to be reminded how devasted it is for the personal growing. Instead to be a main actor in the personal life, one becomes a secondary figure in somebody else's life.
"However, if you prefer spirals...
Be mindful not to get trapped in other people's loops of suffering."
Thank you.
Lovely sketch and good advice. Sometimes I think the drawback to our modern social media 'living' is people tend to have a need to live for their 'online personna' and forget to set down the screen and also live in the ACTUAL world which is around them.
I'm super selfish with my ME time and that is almost always non plugged in time. I find I worry little what others think of me or how I am presented when I'm alone in my garden or only my chickens or dog or cat are there to 'judge' me :) They don't need to 'upvote' or 'thumbs up' me and I still get joy from it :)
Thank you Donna.
Modern social media or society, I am not sure if there is such a big difference.
In social media, things are recorded, providing access to information outside of time. Other than that, the two present many of the same challenges, as well as opportunities.
Never put your time into the hands of the ungrateful. Always stay focus in life and always maintain pleasant mask....thanks for inspiring me these morning with your wonderful posting@anibas on what life is all about
Well, I wouldn't recommend any mask at all, but choice is a beautiful thing :)