Caged Bird 🕊️

 Feel the Heat.

    Dig down deep, and face the sun. Feel the fire as it spreads across your skin. Allow it to consume you, slowly devouring everything in its path. The fire of life, claiming whatever it wishes to claim.

    Cold does not exist. Only the lack of heat. When we feel something cold or frigid, we are not actually experiencing a real sensation. The sensation is simply the object or atmosphere sucking away our heat. A weird concept to fully grasp, when you first learn it. 

    When one begins to understand how life and science works, many different windows begin to open. Many different thought processes and patterns begin to dissolve. The only way we can truly find new ways to improve and innovate, is by constantly changing what we hold to be true. One cannot expect to escape the dead-end thinking which has lead us to our troubles in the first place, without first experiencing reality-shattering thoughts.

    Shattering realities can be a dangerous game. Most people are not prepared for theirs to be shattered. Even more are willing to fight and defend what they hold true. The ability to accept new ideas, and toggle with them, without fully absorbing them, is tricky. Most individuals are incapable of doing so. The skills required to hold something, yet not absorb it, takes time. It takes reading and knowledge. Years of studying and challenging yourself to see through the lies. Battles within depths which have previously gone unconquered.

    The great illusion is all around us. The never-ending mind control which dictates how one pursues their own lives. The flow of motion in which dead fish follow along the waves, without so much as a second thought. Make no mistake, the illusion is real. So real, that most men and women dedicate their lives to it. They spend every waking hour, doing exactly as the illusion tells them to do. They jump when they’re told to jump, they eat when they’re told to eat. The schedule never slows down, never stops. It is a constant battle to go-go-go-go. It’s only once you’ve completely stepped out of the stream, do you realize how you’ve been apart of it all along.

    Waking up is a challenging aspect. The ability to understand the world for what it is, not what you wish it to be, is challenging. It requires a giant leap of faith, to no longer cling onto the reality you have learned to love so dear. To walk out into the unknown, and step into the void. To dive into the deep end, knowing full well that you can never go back. The act of courage required to leave behind all that you hold true, in order to seek something which is missing. Something you cannot be sure for certain, yet it keeps on calling out your name. Something which is simply missing from the illusion of life.

    We humans are particular creatures. We fall into routines and habits, which then build our understanding of the world. We slowly but surely lie to ourselves and begin to believe that everybody is just like us. That they follow the same routine. That they participate in the same gossip. That they do and think just like we do. We create this bubble-like environment, surrounding ourselves only with others who think just like us. We build our walls to only comprehend that which we have experienced. We slowly but surely forget the truth about our time, here on Earth, in exchange for a fantasy. 

    Fantasies are always great illusions. They keep on entertained and engaged in their active role. If one is king in the fantasy, one maintains said status for the greater good of the illusion. If one is a fool, they continue the same path. Our roles become pre-defined by our past actions and knowledge, until he very position we are put in becomes our cage. The steel bars which we learn to love, having been cast upon ourselves.

    Today is a great day to bend reality. Today is the opportune moment, to cast aside the chains which hold you down. Take a moment to break your routine, break your habits. To destroy the false reality which you have constructed around yourself. Go for a walk instead of sitting down for lunch. Grab a drink at the bar instead of going to the gym. Travel to an unfamiliar restaurant where you’ve never been before. Do something today to escape the prison which you yourself have constructed. Step outside of the cage, and become a free bird once again.

    The bird in a cage is safe from danger, but that is not where birds were meant to live. The ship in the harbour is safe from storms, but thats not why ships were built. The man behind a desk is safe from challenges, but that is not why man was born.

Step outside of the familiar, and embrace the unknown. Step into the wilderness, and remember who you truly are. Remember who you were meant to be.

Remember what life was like, before you were told who you are.

        Glory Be,

                    Amen.