Healing and acceptance, as I understand
I wrote a poem yesterday How would you think If you weren't told How to think What would you feel If you weren't told What you must not feel What would you do If you weren't told What you cannot do Who would you be If you weren't told Who you should not be Who would you dare to be If you weren't told Who you should be. I send my writings to a small group of friends, sometimes it results in conversation around the topic. As I engaged in conversation with my friends, I realize that this poem represents the ultimate quest that each and every one of us needs to undertake. The discovery of Self and the severing of the metaphorical umbilical cord with the childhood home. Such an a-ha! moment. Let me explain. Everything I lay out here is bits and pieces I picked up from various books I read in the last couple of years, and I am paraphrasing it in the way I understood and synthesized this information. The constant struggle of every human being is a balance between auth