Writing From The Soul
Words That Connect to the Beauty of Light
A Conversation Between Freedom and Fear
Freedom:
Fear, come sit with me. Experience what it’s like to be free.
Fear:
You’re cheeky, Freedom. Where were you when we learned that boundaries are necessary? You show up however you want, with no limits.
Freedom:
Ask the child I was. At the age of three, I crossed the street without looking. One time, a car suddenly appeared and stopped in front of me. My father ran to me, gave me a strong hug, picked me up, and said, “Sorry, I love you.” That evening, he sat with me to make cars from tin cans that we painted in different colors. When a can rolled, I wasn’t allowed to cross the sandbox if there was no can in the way. My father taught me love in places where others encountered boundaries. When there is enough love, there is no need for boundaries.
Fear:
Believe me, you’re lucky. What a father you have. Mine would have thrown me in the trash out of frustration if I crossed the street without looking. Forget boundaries, I can’t live in a country where people like you don’t even bother to vote for those who want to bring order. You don’t even do that.
Freedom:
Vote for whom?
Fear:
For whoever you choose in the Knesset. The question is dodging.
Freedom:
Sorry, I didn’t mean to sound evasive. In my world, there is no one who can truly change the reality I encounter except for myself, so the question wasn’t clear to me.
Fear:
Freedom, you’re cheeky. Have you heard the saying that no one is above the law?
Freedom:
(Quiet)
Fear:
So who am I, in your view?
Fear:
A troublemaker disrupting order.
Freedom:
I’m confused. Look with me for a moment. You’re essentially saying that for there to be order, there must be a law?
Fear:
Well, what? It’s lucky you’re in the minority in this world, otherwise, there’d be real chaos.
Freedom:
Sometimes I forget that I’m talking to you, Fear. Stop. I’m not tuned to chaos like you are. I’m tuned to creation. Observe with me for a moment. Where is your responsibility to be orderly, regardless of the law?
Fear:
Don’t worry. I’m not the problem, and apparently neither are you, Mr. Freedom. You dance through days without any aids and confuse people along the way. The problem is with the religious, the Arabs, the Bibi-supporters, the leftists. I don’t know, choose a side within the drama and understand that the country needs every sane voice. That’s how sane people will be elected to maintain law and order. I get this simple thing and get up to vote! Get up to protest! And you? Talking to me about responsibility?
Freedom:
I understand. There is no single reality. Each person encounters outside what they have inside. It’s interesting to understand that law for you creates calm. Let me share my experience: life has taught me that we are always in motion. We are born as infants and leave the journey as adults. Within this, we change, with or without desire. We live change. Before I’m a freedom that doesn’t vote, I’m a living person, choosing every day to breathe, to acknowledge my feelings, to give space to what I feel in my body, to dream. I practice love through listening. When something unpleasant meets me, I breathe and explore. This way, I manage to respect the difficulty and learn about myself. Understand, Fear, this isn’t a simple task. Every action that comes from me carries responsibility and choice. Simply, when you are freedom, you have no choice. You must release yourself where you are not free.
Fear:
Trying to understand where you’re heading.
Freedom:
Our responsibilities are different. I choose within, you choose outside. People usually talk directly about results, racing towards goals and forgetting how they appear on the way. Simply, Fear, understand that I know where I placed my responsibility and what I chose. The result becomes part of the journey and doesn’t steal the whole. Who I am is not the result. To think that someone from outside will manage or determine the results of my life is to choose a life experience of helplessness from the start.
Fear:
Freedom, what does that mean? But it doesn’t work like that. For what do you have a government? Leaders? I still don’t understand how your responsibility to yourself connects with the rest of the people in the world.
Freedom:
People around me encounter who I am. I chose to listen to you. I love you. You are here and I am here, and what connects us now is not our opinions, as they are different. Love is what connects us. Otherwise, our disagreement would quickly end the conversation, and perhaps even our relationship. You will be you, and I will be me. Think about it. This is the responsibility for order that I take, and I do choose to be good every day. Believe me, dear Fear, where there is enough attention, there is an infinite need for responsibility, and there’s nothing outside to blame.
Fear:
I understand that I love you too. You are a pleasant friend. I accept you. This is what I love about you. I hadn’t thought about things this way. Interesting, thank you.
Freedom:
Thank you yourself.
Observation allows us to choose, not just act in our lives. The human species has been under constant change since forever. In essence, we all live through changes. Some recognize the change before it arrives, some recognize it while it is happening, and some awaken to acknowledge it after it has occurred. Still, consciously or not, we live the change. We have the right to choose, and our reality is made up of thousands of choices – all of which are ours. Stopping and consciously observing is a choice. We have a great gift as human beings. We should always strive to remember to bring spirit between our choices, so we can approach the true root of our hearts and enjoy the power of consciousness and meaning within us. In a world where there is faith, there is no chance – there is only the Creator (chance = reversed letters of Creator).
