… “make a choice!” They said. ‘Why?’ I ask. ‘Because life is about choices’, they respond. The quality of your life is determined by your choices. But I don’t feel like making a choice and I don’t know what to choose. Choices still have to be made, either we do it ourselves or others do it for us. It is a choice and doing nothing is a choice as well! Doing nothing means we allow others and forces beyond us to make the choice for us.
So I was taken to 4 spaces, the first was truly beautiful, it had marble walls and floors, incredibly spacious front room, bright and flooded with light. The people there were smartly dressed, everyone looked crisp. They moved with determination and sense of purpose. They wore well tailored expensive clothing. They had tense looks and sullen faces. They had to conform to rigid regime 75% of the waking day. To get into this space requires a competitive spirit and high intelligence unless you are lucky or well connected. The gate keepers are stern and ruthless dressed in designer suites, deciding the lots and futures of the people, their lifes being decided as well.
The second space was not as plush, it was good enough. The walls were not marble but in a decent decorative state. People were smartly dressed but with a few slack edges every now and then. There was some ease in the air but still highly political environment. The people are controlled and dictated to 66% to 75% of their waking life. The gate keepers are sometimes confused, dressed in whatever they can lay their hands on. The people are all at each other’s mercies.
The third space is dire, just the very basic of living conditions for survival. It is survival of the fittest. Control is 100% of the day. The gatekeepers are stern and ruthless dressed in combat attire. No one is happy.
The fourth space is bare, it has no door. Each person arrives and designs his own personal space as he wills, there are no gates or gate keeper. The person is his own gate keeper to his own space. No thing is given as the reward for freedom to go and come as it pleases.
I had to choose, which space to be in, the marble space was enticing and inviting, the beauty was spellbinding, the energy intense. The second space had a ease to it, hands off cruising seemed possible, but a journey to no where in particular. The third space was scary, not to be desired. The outcome of unfortunate choices. The fourth space had no thing, the initial reward of freedom. The first 3 spaces are varying degrees of prison were choices are restricted. The decor and attire of the gatekeepers did not change the controlling forces of these environments. The fourth space is the place of freedom, but not all can handle the stack truth and sheer effort required to profit from freedom. Those that priced the freedom highly, turn their space into a palace.
Life is about choices and some prisons are made of marble.
Beautiful Ivory 