The heart
of the wise is in the house of mourning,
but the heart of fools is in the house of pleasure.
but the heart of fools is in the house of pleasure.
Ecclesiastes
7:4
There are those who
are good to you, there are those who hurt you. Maybe they pretend to
love you, maybe you are taken in by them so much that you can't
see... but those who hurt you, don't love you.
Yet it's so easy to welcome them. They
praise you without holding back, and give you such good times.
Awesome. Splendid. What's so bad about that?
Your friend will tell you there's a
shortcut to Hotel Happiness, right through the forest. Maybe it is
the Forest of Feasts. He, or she, promises to travel along with you,
if you take his/her advise.
So you pack your bags and go. But after
a while, all that seemed fun becomes a bore. You grow weary and your
goal is not a mile closer than if you'd stuck to your own way.
Your friend notices you're tired. Of
playing while traveling, of tripping over sticks or getting stuck in
hidden burrows. He offers to carry your bag for you, the bag that
holds all that represents you.
But his mood is changing, he's not such
a pleasant companion after all. He begins to stall. And suddenly...
he's gone. Leaving you in the middle of a dark forest, tired and
lonely. Robbed of all your tools and funds. Of your talent and
energy.
I can give you the names of some of
these con artists. Like Greed. He robs you of your ability to share,
or do without. He makes you concentrate so on getting the best, it
makes you a bad friend to others.
There's Fear, a lady who will take
you to rock solid Safety, making you forego the riskier moores, where
you might have uncovered your soul's yearning.
If you turn Obedience into an art, it
will stop you from defending whom, or what, is dear to you. Instead
it will tie you down to undesirable commitments, that drain you and
lead you away from who you are.
The list of names is long, and if you
take time to think, you can write down other names yourself.
to be continued ...
to be continued ...
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