I have always been fascinated with that wall. The amount of time and effort it took to build it. The energy output to keep it in shape and secure. The many beliefs it took just to create the idea of such a barrier are immense. Since all actions begin with a thought, what were those thoughts?
First I guess you must believe that someone is out to hurt you. This could have been a civilization living right next to you for a very long time, and now due to some event, you feel that they are going to destroy your way of life. Then would come the thought that “I must detach from them in order to stay secure, keep my way of life as it is.” If I give in to their way of thinking, I’m certainly going to be ruined.
Secondly, you must analyze to what extent you must become detached. Is it a line in the sand? Or barbed wire fence? or maybe even a brick wall. These are so small in comparison to the Great Wall. It was meant to keep people out Forever. There was never a line in the sand or small fence. No, it became a monolith in it’s own right. Why, when on the other side is a tremendous familiarity. Surely at times even a friendly neighbor with whom you endevored in trade, laughed with, cryed with or for, even physically attracted to.
This monolith was created over time with many spent tears and heavy emotions. Lives were changed on many different levels. As it was reinforced, you begin to notice some trying to cross the barrier, but to no avail. You alone have total control on who comes in and out. Oh, the things you will miss by having such a grand structure under your control.
It has been built with such complexity that it may never be abolished. The items that may be found by doing so could detroy everything we think we know. Our beliefs of what is and what was, may be found to be untrue. I have seen this wall first hand. It is enormous, strong, imperveable, weather resistant and never ending.
Upon trying to scale this wall, I encountered many obstacles. First being, there are no hand holds to grab onto. Then there are the daggers that protrude from the wall, designed to cut you until you realize that your efforts are futile. At times the wall seems to disappear, but this too is an illusion. Just when you gain hope by it’s disappearance, it screams back into existence all in the name of causing extreme pain. You try and try, encountering more and more obstacles until you feel you can go on no more. Then it hits you, “Why am I torturing myself like this?”
Avoiding pain is an inbred trait that we cannot swerve ourselves away from. As much as we think we want what is over that wall, we start to realize, maybe it’s not so bad where I’m at. So then we begin to ignore the wall and move away from the pain it causes us. Because it is then we realize the one fatal flaw of the wall, it can’t follow us. It is the sole property of the owner and simply cannot move until they move it.
So as I end my story, it was detrimental to the evolution of any relationship to build the wall. Even worse to maintain it and make it stronger. Sadly enough, the wall, until it is moved, will cause nothing but pain to anyone who encounters the monolith. Surely, if you have built a wall, you must realize on the other side are people who knew you at one time and are hoping that the wall will be demolished so that they may once again enjoy your presence.
Should you decide that your wall is more important, only you know what you will lose by keeping it!
