A journey is not an “out of your body” experience. A journey is a trip into your subconscious mind; at least I see it that way. It’s not a look into the future. It is about choosing the first image that pops into mind when your guide tells you to imagine something. It’s about your present mental state and your thoughts about life, where it’s taken you or where you think it will. I haven’t gone on a journey many times; maybe about 5 or 6 but that’s it. I’ve always done them in Tai Chi class, and my professor guides them. Every time, something different comes up. I want to share my most recent journey, mainly because I learned something from it, and I would like to share it with whoever happens to need the same lesson I got.
A few minutes into my journey, my inner-self appeared in the image of a wet paper doll. I attached to it by jumping into the middle of it. Its sillhouette delineated mine. And we went to a field, and the field was actually some grassy knolls that used to be at school… and it was a memory. And I was laying on the grass with my ex, but I wasn’t really in that moment, I was observing it. I felt calm, I felt really peaceful. And my inner-self told me to say good-bye because we needed to go somewhere else. I said good-bye, and I was surprised, later, by how easy it was to let go in the journey, (wasn’t really easy in real life). But we moved on and we were walking on a road, as two people walking from one end of a screen to the other. And we got to a house/cabin and I was looking out the window. I saw the sea, and some grass. It was on a mountain. I was supposed to imagine my future. There was someone holding me from behind and there were toys around the house, which surprised me, since I’ve been thinking a lot about not having kids when I am older. I didn’t want to leave. I didn’t say good-bye, I said I’ll see you some day. I am not saying I will see these people again, I am just saying that’s what I imagined. And so we went back on the same road and we ripped, ripped videos of memories from the wall. And we danced ripping, tearing these paper from the wall that had images of my life, images of people in my past, images of myself, and it was liberating!!! Because as I ripped the paper from the walls, the walls became an open sky. Then we went back to the back of my eyelids and my inner self gave me a blue photo album, closed, as if all the things I had seen in the wall were in there… STORED. And it said: “I love you. Keep your love to yourself”. And then I opened my eyes.
I knew what it meant. Lately, I’ve had feelings for someone who would never feel the same about me. It’s safe. If nothing happens, there’s no possibility of getting hurt, not much at least. When my inner-self told me to keep my love to myself, it didn’t mean not loving anyone. It meant that my love for someone is a gift and I should give it to someone willing to take it and protect it. As I said, this is not a mystic experience, not for me at least. My inner-self was only an expression of my true feelings, the ones I repress so I don’t acknowledge how tired I really am of loving and not being loved in return. I’ve been learning so many things lately, so much about myself and life and other people. All these information just seems overwhelming sometimes, but I finally enjoy … I enjoy living, which means a lot when you can’t really remember ever feeling like that before. Lately, I’ve gotten rid of the trappings of the past. If you are older than me, you might think that 20 years are not such a burden. Well, at 20, it feels like the world is on your shoulders, especially if you feel like you’ve been through things that are beyond your mind’s age, or humankind’s maturity level. I’ve learned to live in the present , but I guess these past weeks I ventured into the future, into a dream state to sabotage my own happiness, my peaceful state of being in the “now”. And I’ve been dreaming about someone who would never dream of me, and I’ve been living in my dreams instead of being truly alive. I am tired. No more dreams for me. Give me reality. Give me the gift of veracity. Give me something possible, probable. Something that is, at least, in my power to change. And that’s only me. Only I. I can change myself. I can win my own heart. I can take me out to the park and smile to myself when I need a smile… and if I need a hug, I’ll go to my friends or to my family, with whom I share my love and who love me in return.
My friend AJ says: “true love is both selfish and selfless”. I don’t know if he necessary means one of my various own interpretations from this thought but I think, in a way, it means that you should give yourself to someone who will also give him or herself to you. I have that already…my family’s love, my friends’ love and FINALLY my own. I think I better be selfish and selfless and give myself entirely to experience love for my own life, instead of dreaming about one that I will never have.
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