We are to fashion a nest of fluff and comfort for others and ourselves , we know this is what we are entitled to right? .
There are no safe places . Not here not now and not ever and no one says so because they want to feel safe at all times and that alone should have been a clue . The incessant want of it .
You might be thinking about now that I am wrong that you feel safe . I mean you feel safe sometimes right?
This feeling of safe is temporary as it should be . Imagine yourself wrapped in warm fuzzy safeness 24-7 your entire life. There is no life without danger and that danger is both terrifying and exciting and well also confusing , How can it be that we will live our entire life with random danger?.
More conversely is the fact that we convince ourselves that we are not.
There is the most popular way religion which in most cases does not offer complete safety but sort of works like a safety net in the end or a good luck charm that sort of gives us a little bit of the magic that would ward off common catastrophy ..but only sometimes if you say the right magic words to the right God ..suddenly unsafe again . Because you and every other person who has found the right God are in danger from the wrong God ..but you do feel safe right? surely you choose the right one.
But then you pray and you pray really hard and you realize you might not feel as safe as you thought and again there are no safe places really..
The good news is there are rests..oh yes ..the little breaths we take when danger is , but is not eminent.
A sort of fantastic bliss that happens that outshines the dark shadows that are always there.
There are no safe places ..the greatest gift you can give someone is to tell them ..the truth that you can not magically prevent the suffering or sadness that is part of life..But you will Stand in the storms with them .
People can be mean , callas, they can and will hurt your feelings.. they are just people ..you will see things that disturb your nature and you will sometimes crumble ..I will pick you up and help you heal
But I can not promise a safe place. I will give you weapons to fight dragons..but I will not let you kill them..
I want you to live ..I want you to love and laugh and cry and sigh . and remember the times when it seemed so unbearable and looking back how little and distant it is..how your sorrow made you feel human. How someone saying or doing something so wrong , defined you..and how you redefined yourself in so many ways .. and all the beautiful that has been their even in the darkest moments.
Come out and play..it's not safe..but do it anyway.. you always have.
Naomi Montana Walsh.
