Beyond The Looking Glass - Words of the Unseen - Chapter 151
𝓦𝓸𝓻𝓭 𝓫𝔂 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓪𝓾𝓽𝓱𝓸𝓻
Beyond The Looking Glass is the second book in the Unseen series, a story that came to me from the other side. A story where I thought I was just the narrator until I heard the Words of the Unseen.
This second story goes beyond time and place and mixes the long ago with the here and now. Because history keeps repeating, until we learn and do something about it.
Beyond The Looking Glass - Words of the Unseen - Chapter 151
When Papa Roach sings, "My weakness is that I care too much," a tear rolls onto my cheek.
It is exactly that, that is the reason why I turned my back on humanity for so long, why I did not want to see them.
It hurts too much, so much potential wasted, superficiality lies so thick on so many skins that it´s a mission impossible for me to penetrate.
Greed, envy, and anger are the motor that drives the masses, and why?
The ego-driven mind, partially out of fear, triggers the survival instincts, the need for identity, and social comparison.
The origin might sit in the emotional brain, the amygdala (fear/anger), and the hypothalamus (reward/hunger).
If these are not trained and developed well, which is the case for most humans, including yours truly, we become unbalanced.
It causes the world outside my window. The world I turned away from, as I did not want to feel the pain, substitute shame, the loss, and the journey each of those souls will have to make to just reach the next level.
Not the end, just the next level.
I saw them hiding in phones and make-believe worlds, like I have done myself.
Not knowing how to face oneself without wanting to claw your brain out. Because we are not a pretty picture to look at if you peel away the plastic surgery, make-up, and skin.
We are the cruelest of animals if we are not trained correctly.
That doesn´t sound very nice, does it?
A feeling as if we are dogs, but untrained, we are probably worse than dogs.
Fortunately, mankind subconsciously knew that, and we spent thousands of years creating a society in which it´s normal that we are trained not to become the cruelest of animals each of us carries inside.
Schools, religion, law, family rules, ethics, philosophy, all are used to streamline our human potential.
Certain humans spent thousands of years building a society where it became normal, even essential, that we be trained, guided, softened.
To not become the cruelest of animals, at the same time, there were those who preferred the human souls to live in hunger, wage war, and find pleasure in delivering pain.
Those who did not want to civilize the human desire and slow the rage.
Along the way, they mixed up, causing empathy to be taught through dominance. A society to decide for them, not with them.
To not shape the chaos of instinct into something we can share with others, but by determining what is supposed to be shared.
Now there are three streams: those who feed the animal, those who want to dominate the animal and make it extinct, and then there is me.
My goal isn’t to kill the animal, but to partner with it.
To transform raw survival into creative energy, sex into connection, anger into boundaries, envy into aspiration.
These last years, I have seen this work. I still have many miles to go, but I am finding my balanced mind,
It´s not about silencing the animal inside, or letting it rage; it´s about learning to carry it with grace.
Try to explain that on a first date, which by the way is coming up soon. I have hope, even after the previous mishaps.
This one just might be different, for one, we can have a conversation that actually goes below the first superficial layer.
That is a rare find, to actually enjoy receiving a message and thinking about answers and angles when you reply. That is a big plus, but the bigger plus is that I feel totally at ease.
Also, about meeting her.
Often, I already feel like the expectations are too much, or hurdles I don´t want to jump over. A feeling that, yes, on the outside, this looks fine, nice soft body, cute face, and then that feeling of, no, rather the lack of feeling of true connection.
This disconnect, this feeling that the pieces do not fit, before you took the puzzle out of the box. In the past, I ignored it. I thought it would fade in time, but it never did.
Within weeks, maybe months, the feeling would be unstoppable, and I would be asking myself: "What are you thinking, you want to get each date over with as fast as possible, don´t you notice?"
Learning to recognize that feeling has saved this world from many disappointments; the few times that warning sign did not flicker on the first date were the valuable ones.
The warning light is off this time, the conversation alluring, and there is one more thing, and this is a first.
I feel no pressure, no pull to perform,
no weight of expectation, no need to please.
For once, I can simply exist.
It´s weird, I can pinpoint what changed, maybe I am just getting older, but on no date have I felt this free.
Next Chapter Coming in Two Days
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