Sweet 16 Never Been Kissed
We live in the belief that we KNOW who we are, that we have basic unalterable characters and lives. I don't know why we don't step outside the box, get out of the comfort zone, stir the pot, shake up the medicine, and let go of what by habit limits us day after day.
Time is not linear, after all, as even the conservative scientists are now confessing. Every coin has two sides, so I'd like to ask ye, what is your silver lining? Or I can turn it to myself: since I am born in this era, in this body, with this particular set of circumstances - socially, emotionally, psychologically - what is MY gift to the community of planet earth? May 2016 not be the year to let go of any limitation as to what I should be doing? or who I should be? or why or how I should be? (or be doing it)? Let 2016 be the year in relation to as when the Americans say, "Sweet sixteen and never been kissed" ~ a metaphoric nod to that coming of age in our lives when we've outgrown the happy confines of infancy and childhood. Our biological clocks become interested in the dance with another. Let us discard the concept that we are a "known" entity; for what vanity shouts in us that we should be wiser than God? Who but the great mystery knows how truly, deeply unknowable we are in all our humanness? How can I claim to be cleverer than that which breathed consciousness into I?
For any interaction undertaken from a SOLO (i.e., individual or lone) vantage point will of course be smoother, less complex. It is when we accept the invitation to "be kissed" that lives begin to become a revolution. When we venture out to meet the world, whatever form or expression that takes. Even beyond the smaller concept of one other HUMANbeing in a romantic context, now everything that we thought we were is called into question. And if we are so lost in the worship of another, and they in us, then we might experience the exaltation of rising above our previous boundaries. We rise to the occasion of being so unconditionally loved, (this is before any lips come into contact even!) and we reflect that appreciation of our pure being to our chosen special companion. Why? Because they see us as we truly are. We never set out to harm, offend, or isolate anyone. Now our first kiss sees us in our origin. We are pure love. We see them likewise. They can do no wrong. We are one and the same. And what's more, we are merely reflections of the Great Spirit itself, of the one love that is all of us all at once. (After a few weeks, the fear-based habits of projection, codependency and security issues may show, but that's another day's work!)
Turning back to the use of my own perspective now, I hope ye will resonate with my message:
Let's make this 2016 a year when I can return to a simpler time, to the time before I felt so worldly (and weary?) ... Where the ecstasy of being discovered by another human being overflowed my senses, and yet I still focused on my personal passions, outside of any other mortal.
May I honour my gifts and share them responsibly and joyously. May I bring both healing and multifarious blessings in these our troubled times.
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