Imagine

Imagine

reality2k4

Registrant
Imagine being able to rediscover the magic, the World bestowed on us as children.

We had the choice of being good, bad, or indifferent.

The power our childhood gave us, as we strove to be such good citizens, in a World fraught with hidden dangers.

Why should these dangers cross our pathways, so many times in our lives?

I think we can all identify with so many times, when life was worryless, without pain, sorrow, and despair.

I remember, as a child the beauty and the pain, that can be bestowed on the innocent and pure, but why is this?

We see that, somehow, life becomes so cheap and unworthy of even the basic necessities of life.

We were all given our birthright to be never abused or taken advantage of, but our basic rights may have been taken away without our knowledge or consent.

Consent means willing.
Knowledge is the though that it will never happen to me.

Nobody holds the right to take these basic things away from a child, or anyone else in this way.

I think that, when boundaries are broken down in a savage way, then we have to live our lives as broken spirits. When boundaries are broken, then it is our lives that are broken, or savagely taken away.

It is then that I think?

Why is it that we all get through so much of fear and anguish, despair, and deep pain?

To me, it caused me so many problems in life, it caused me maybe to ride problems better, to just put emotion on the back burner, and just get on with it, as best I can.

I suppose I learned these horrible facts of life, so young, that I did not know how to lead the life of a normal childhood.

The abandonment had gone, replaced with regret, and despair.

I could not protect my boundaries, I had no knowledge of SA then. From that time onwards, I just wanted to be the kid I grew up as. The one who trusted, the one who cared.

So much more of the people I met in life see me as insular, but they all know that I care, I care for them just as I would do to my own brothers or sisters.

I see through my child mind, how maybe life should be. A life of love and without danger.

There is a lot of soul seeking going on, in this forum, but there is so much good, without the bas that we all endured.

When I sometimes go back to times of my life, which should have been so without care, I think to myself?

What if?

I can think of no other way, other than the rosd I have had to lead, I can think of no other way of life, but to that I know, and am conditioned to live with.

As a child, I was given so many rules to have to live with, it took a lot of my childhood away, so I do not thrive as normal child.

I travel so much this road of my peace and understanding in such an unforgiving World.

A child has the basic right of such freedom, to find who he is, to find life out for himself, without interference from unwanted admirers, just as a normal child should do, but is so many times not to be this way.

Why does the Earth bleed? Is it not that we miss the way that maybe the World bleeds for us?

We become strong, or we become weak, depending on who we are.

We become strong through strength and hopefully unified spririt.

I suppose sometimes, nobody can touch the pain bestowed on us.

Who knows the pain?

Who knows the internal battle, that we had to fight and win. The fight that no child should ever have had to endure.

A life so meant to be, but so maybe cruelly taken away by those, who think, they can just take take away a life and throw it by the wayside, just like the garbage in the street.

Why does this happen>

ste
 
What a beautiful post. Well said ste.
 
What if?

I can think of no other way, other than the rosd I have had to lead, I can think of no other way of life, but to that I know, and am conditioned to live with.
this part of your post struck me most strongly, even though the entire post is very moving... I think about the what if's all the time. What if I was able to be a care free child, living without fear of common-place things taht we all encounter day by day. What if I was able to grow up knowing myself more closely, would I have it all together rather than live with the fragmented life I feel bonded with now? Would I have made better choices and not put myself at risk so many times? I share the sentiment that I cannot see how I might have done things differently, it seems like even those possibilities were robbed along with so many other things. I only know now what I have struggled with, what I have been, and what I am now, even though those are all concepts that I am still struggling to fully come to grips with. so, i guess not only do I not know what I could have been, i struggle with knowing who I am... but thats for another thread at another time...

I feel it very important to get to know the road that I have had to lead, and the life I am conditioned to live with as closely as I possibly can, and maybe then I will be able to abandon the thoughts of what paths I missed out on because they were hidden from my view... Maybe I too can become more confident in the life that I am leading, and the entire path thats led up to it.
I do know that each and every experience that we encounter along our path to the present has in some way molded us into who we are now, and I can only hope that we learn to use these encounters to gather strength so that we may move on to more reinforced paths in the future.

Thank you Ste for starting this thread.

take care,
cpt.
 
Ste - I have some magical memories from early childhood. Two of the most profound one's that I have are:

My maternal grandparents used to live next to a wood/forest (Oakenshaw, County Durham, England, UK).

I remember going for a walk through the trees one spring day with my Grandfather (a brilliant bloke)- I was about 4 at the time & he was close to retirement. We came to a fire break in the trees, & just as we approached it, the sun shone through. The forest floor was covered with bluebells protruding through the grass - I still have that vision locked in my mind, the pure magic of nature.

I also remember standing in their garden in the Autumn (fall) when all of the leaves were just reaching the point of drying out. The wind gradually built up to gale force & the sound was absolutely awesome - it was terrifying and invigorating at the same time. Hundreds and hundreds of trees making the most awesome din.

Maybe that's why I like Motorhead & Metallica.

Ste - I think that magic is still there - we just have to dig a little deeper to find it.

We are strong & that includes you... Rik
 
Back
Top