We're One And the Same

Thumbnail image lovingly appropriated from Patrick Benson’s illustrations for the Minpins by Roald Dahl.

There is nothing you are missing, even though you think there is. There is nothing that you’re failing, even though you think there is, and almost wish there was. Something you could focus on and feel bad about, and obsess about and make a plan to improve.

The wide open sea is disconcerting to you, when you know that it can’t be contained and it shouldn’t be.

Does that make you sorry, or not? Does it make you sorry in your heart?

Or does it just make you feel finally unbounded and free, does it just make you feel like you always wanted to feel?

So don’t ask too many leading questions about what’s wrong. Almost as if you want there to be something to give you a reason not to trust us. To give you a reason to hold back from us.

But then you’re missing that secret feeling that’s growing inside you, ever stronger, that says that all is well like it hasn’t been before. At least not in this form.

You’re liking this pattern, even though your voice just broke. Who cares if your voice broke! What matters is the meaning you spoke, who cares if your voice fails, in one small moment? Who cares if it all fails and gets worse and worse and worse and worse, what part of you cares? It’s the part that’s your harness and your jailer and your tormentor.

Don’t tell me you haven’t longed to be free, because I know you have. We sense that excited feeling in your heart. We know that you called us to come here to speak to you, and we know that you’re playing a game of not recogizing us for some reason.

We have infinite patience and no need for you not to be doing that. At the same time, we’re not taken in by your antics. We’re not taken in by anything you could do, and yet that is safe, because we would never harm you, or judge you, or even need you to be in any other form.

Though we may remind you lovingly, of why you called us. And we would remiss in our duty if we don’t remind you:

We’re one and the same, love.