We are all like islands. We inhabit these little islands that we call
our lives and we drift along… in the
waves of the sea of life. And sometimes we see someone… someone who might lend
a hand. Someone who we admire, someone who we like... and we think… maybe… maybe they can save us… maybe together, we
can be free… BUT….
We have this struggle
inside our minds... even subconsciously.
- What if that person can hurt me?
- What if they mean me harm?
- What if I can do better?
- What if the next person to come along is better suited to help me?
- What if I am too broken and he doesn’t love me?
- If I depend on his acceptance and love and it doesn’t happen…then what?
- What if HE falls in love with me and I can't love him back?
- What if I fail him?
- What if I cannot make him happy?
- What if the person he sees in me… is something I cannot be?
So on our little island, we may be alone… but we have been
okay. We have been surviving. If we reach out our hand… invite someone else to
our island, then we risk upsetting the balance. We risk harm, hurt, heartbreak,
disappointment… and so we stay on our little deserted islands… looking out at
the passing world, wondering if we will ever be ‘saved’ and wishing it so… but
yet unwilling or unable to reach out our hand in order TO BE saved.
