"They say life is a game and then take away the board" - V for Vendetta
I repeated it over and over and over in my head, trying to find that one thing in which this line was applicable, what can he really have meant, where and when is the board taken away.
So I kept repeating and soon an image formed. During one of my camps this summer I learnt to open my eyes and realise our lives are rigged. We are made to think what someone wants us to think, do what someone influences us to do, every day of our lives we are receiving stimuli, a constant slow hypnosis and no one realises they are under the spell. There is this image of a board of advancement with status symbols such as owning a fancy car or a big house or large amounts of land. The problem with the status symbols is that life isn't secondary school therefore achieving an A, 90 or a 1 is not all. You enter the grey area of possibilities and various outcomes. For example what if you own that car and use it to serve your boss in a slave like manner, you can own that house and be starving in the inside.
We are in a world where many people have university degrees, when something is too common it loses its value. So how far can this really take you, when you go to work. There is no score well and move up the ranks test. Not to undermine the importance of education but is needed than just a degree.
There is no board for success, they have taken it away, given us an illusion of a board instead to keep us in line. Success is a free style game, create your own rewards your own symbols of success, play by the rules you will always lose. Its about having that bravery to stray, to improvise, to visualise. There is no board so don't try to play their imaginary game, don't let what you think should be there affect you from what really is there. Play your own game on the side of reality with caution and maybe the odds will be ever in your favour.
"We aren't playing we are just being moved." - Dina Isis
As I continued to watch one line at the very beginning stuck with me and somehow no one else.
"Like God, I do not play with dice and therefore do not believe in coincidences"
I have not really truly pondered this, I have nothing to say on the matter besides it is a shockingly true statement and to live by it. Nothing happens by chance and everything for a reason, every thing you are exposed to shapes who you are and the final outcome of your life.
It has given me the faith I need to continue and succeed. There are no coincidences merely opportunity and it is our job as an individual to grasp those with both hands. Succeed or die trying.
"I didn't put you in a cage, I merely showed you the bars" V for Vendetta
Saturday, 2 November 2013
The Path Most Taken.
My mind has the capability to take patterns, expand and understand. Repeated events tell a story, a lesson to be learnt. If we all shall just sit and watch, observe and process, the keys to life would become clear.
One Sunday on the east coast of Barbados I was hiking, the coast is beautiful, breathtakingly so, but like most things in life with beauty comes danger. That is probably one of the most basic lessons of life. The colourful frog, the beautiful woman, the inviting plant. The soil type was clay, pebble beaches and sandstone. The path was eroded by those waves we find so beautiful with drop offs and cliffs and complete disappearance of the trail at times.
I was one of the more experienced hikers and though excited and anxious to be at the front in the beginning I quickly realised it wasn't the place for me. They cannot match my pace and may run into difficulty behind. My skills would be more useful from the back, watching and helping those who need it.
For me this was a lesson on its own, it is easy to get so infatuated with the idea of being at the top, first, front of the crowd, but to realise you have outgrown the crowd, your skills and talents have elevated you from participant to Guardian, a place in the shadows to do what needs to be done.
It was fun at the back I had the problem of being the only girl, it seems boys think it is their duty to protect and guard also. The persons at the front were those who were less experienced with this type of exercise so we had many moments to rest.
To sit and observe the roaring waves of the east coast is hypnotising. You see nothing but those waves, hear nothing but their sound and feel nothing but that cool breeze and warm comforting sun on your skin. It is simply amazing. Your mind relaxes, your muscles lose their tension and your eyelids fall to a close.
During this time I was having no suddenly genius thoughts just merely enjoying what God gave us, it was after when we unfortunately had to keep moving that I had those "Aristotle Thoughts."
As I watched the group move, I saw their feet move, sticking to the path, never diverging andsoon realised that the path that was there was most likely the most dangerous route. After thousands of feet passed over its way it had become smooth, worn and slippery. It had started to give way to the sea. If they had forged their own path it would have been easier, but no one thinks to go their own way, there is a path why not use it?
There are factors to consider, someone before me has done it so I can too, or if I forge my own route I have no idea of what the possible outcome might be but go forward with confidence, trust in yourself, think quickly, tread carefully. Surprise and new experiences make life beautiful, worth living. At the end it is up to you and your personal opinion but I say, forge your own path, you are unique, you are you and a path someone before you took can never be yours for you are not the same person.
The reason for this is "The path most travelled is the most dangerous path"
One Sunday on the east coast of Barbados I was hiking, the coast is beautiful, breathtakingly so, but like most things in life with beauty comes danger. That is probably one of the most basic lessons of life. The colourful frog, the beautiful woman, the inviting plant. The soil type was clay, pebble beaches and sandstone. The path was eroded by those waves we find so beautiful with drop offs and cliffs and complete disappearance of the trail at times.
I was one of the more experienced hikers and though excited and anxious to be at the front in the beginning I quickly realised it wasn't the place for me. They cannot match my pace and may run into difficulty behind. My skills would be more useful from the back, watching and helping those who need it.
For me this was a lesson on its own, it is easy to get so infatuated with the idea of being at the top, first, front of the crowd, but to realise you have outgrown the crowd, your skills and talents have elevated you from participant to Guardian, a place in the shadows to do what needs to be done.
It was fun at the back I had the problem of being the only girl, it seems boys think it is their duty to protect and guard also. The persons at the front were those who were less experienced with this type of exercise so we had many moments to rest.
To sit and observe the roaring waves of the east coast is hypnotising. You see nothing but those waves, hear nothing but their sound and feel nothing but that cool breeze and warm comforting sun on your skin. It is simply amazing. Your mind relaxes, your muscles lose their tension and your eyelids fall to a close.
During this time I was having no suddenly genius thoughts just merely enjoying what God gave us, it was after when we unfortunately had to keep moving that I had those "Aristotle Thoughts."
As I watched the group move, I saw their feet move, sticking to the path, never diverging andsoon realised that the path that was there was most likely the most dangerous route. After thousands of feet passed over its way it had become smooth, worn and slippery. It had started to give way to the sea. If they had forged their own path it would have been easier, but no one thinks to go their own way, there is a path why not use it?
There are factors to consider, someone before me has done it so I can too, or if I forge my own route I have no idea of what the possible outcome might be but go forward with confidence, trust in yourself, think quickly, tread carefully. Surprise and new experiences make life beautiful, worth living. At the end it is up to you and your personal opinion but I say, forge your own path, you are unique, you are you and a path someone before you took can never be yours for you are not the same person.
The reason for this is "The path most travelled is the most dangerous path"
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