Hi Free. Im kinda new to this board, Just browsing around and your post caught my eye. Im going to copy and paste one of my works from my own message board that I co own. Its just something Im rambled out along the path of enlightenment.
When I write something I write it from my own opinion. My true belief here is that you take what resonates and leave the rest.
This is my post and my works so there should be no problems with admin, but if there is, feel free to let me know!
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I want to say first and foremost, this is only MY belief. I did not write this to upset or start an arguement or debate! This is not my intention, I beg of you all not to take it this way. I am putting this in advanced and not Pandora's box because I want this piece available to all. If it helps one person get thru and come to terms with life and their own monsters, then to me, it was all worth it. Just one person whos soul is touched. We can survive, you can take everything we hold dear away from us, and we can still find a smile, laughter and love. My hope is for someone to take something away from this that is going to make tomorrow a little bit easier. No one that dosent want to has to respond to this, but please remember this is not a piece meant to be debated, or hated, just let it roll in your minds for a while. Some people might find this incredibly sensitive and even upsetting. So just remember, no fights, debates or hard feelings. Im just throwing this out there.
Where do monsters come from and why do we have to have them?
I believe that the real monsters in this world are, for the main part, only human beings. Those sick, twisted people out there that do monstrous things..
I have met my fair share of them, a grandpa, a stranger and a kid I knew since he was two ended up being a monster. The kind that preys on and attacks children.
Now please remember everyone, that everything I write is just apart of my belief system, this is the system that I have brewed in my head for many, many years…
I came to understand that before we come here, to be born, that we “set up” this life. We give it a basic direction. We dictate certain life experiences into our lives plan. Some good, some outstanding moments, and some are the true tests. When our human minds encounter and have to deal with what we perceive as true evil, true monsters.
But I came up against a problem in this thought system and I had questions I had to dig deep for the answers for..
A: Why did I choose to be in the monsters way? How could I have laid that kind of thing on myself?
B: Why did the monster choose their life path in the manner they did? Why did they choose to be a monster?
Those are not easy questions, and the answers I was looking for where even harder to swallow. I knew the answers the whole time in my heart, but coming to grips with them has been life altering to say the least.
As for the first question, I have to look at myself and my life right now. I have decided that I would not be who I am today if not for life altering events of the past. I have to accept that in the end, only I am in control of what has always happened, because I deemed it so a long time ago. I made that life blue-print and I gave myself choices to act and react to what life threw me..
One defining moment that made me see the light was something in my memory that’s always been there, but I ignored it as just a “silly” moment.
One day, as a very young girl, I forced myself off the monsters lap, I felt uncomfortable. I wondered outside to the back yard and was just musing around in 5 year old strangeness and something hit me on the head. I looked around and saw acorns or some other nut laying on the ground. I looked up and met eyes with a squirrel, he looked average in every way. I approached him and I remember saying “hey”. The squirrel watched me strangely, and seemed to communicate some kinda wisdom to me.. He threw another nut, to which I laughed and he sprung up the tree.
That moment was unreal.. It taught me to move on in some way or another. No matter how many nuts are thrown at me in this life, I can move on and darn it! I will still laugh!
The second question was harder for me to conquer… Because I always refused to think of where the monsters are now. One monster is already dead and there is no communication from him whats-so-ever. Why? Is he in a hellish room and unable to do so? Is his soul gone, demolished by his life deeds?
No………. Its not.
In order for our souls to understand goodness and strive for love, we must first understand evil..
I have come to understand that we have to kinda, run the gauntlet so to speak. For us to understand we have to live the life lessons of the monster. We must immerse ourselves in the evil in order to strive for the good and understand why we are striving for the good.
Think of the Hitlers and Osamas of this world? Why are they here and why do we, as humans need them? And why in the name of all that’s pure, would these souls volunteer for the job?!
The answer is simple really, but complex the deeper we look. I’m going to bring up The Matrix again, mainly to thrill Aloha, but because the moment fits.
Agent Smith is talking about how the robots shaped the world for humans and made it all “perfect”. No hunger, no pain. All seemed perfect. That totally blew up in there face and they realized that the human race needed, even in some cases craved suffering in order to thrive.
(Get to your point already, huhh Ali?)
We can not have the good without the evil, balance would be gone and lessons would not, and could not be learned. We can not have the Angels without the monsters. In order to love and be loved, annnndddd appreciate it, we must lose love, we must be betrayed and we must learn to look thru that and see a brighter tomorrow.
What I have learned thus far, that in order to understand these lessons, I must realize and come to terms with the fact that I put them in place BEFORE I got here. I choose to be in the path of a monster and I choose to live afterward.
Many Blessings and more enlightenment along your way.
... as I am sure my beliefs do the same to you!
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)... but the only thing I get from some of your posts... is that people like me .... who have blind faith .... are ignorant... or stupid.
