i am a painter who began my career as a child coloring outside the lines of my coloring books. i am a writer who started out by composing adventure stories while riding my stick horse around the backyard. as a child, i got in trouble for asking too many questions...i question that.
"the emperor's new clothes" by hans christian andersen
this fairy tale has been a companion to me as i have traveled through my life.
briefly, it is about an emperor who was deceived by two tailors who said they were making a set of clothing out of a "dream" fabric. in reality, they used no fabric at all. to make their scam complete, they announced that only those who were wise enough would be able to see the beautiful clothing. and so, no one, not even the emperor, admitted to being unable to see it.
wearing his new "clothing", the emperor paraded through his kingdom. no one questioned his appearance; no one wished to appear less than wise.
until a small child asked, "why is the emperor not wearing any clothes?"
so it is that i ask, if i question rather than believe i am wise, what will i see?
12 comments:
If world fights for freedom............................ugh........
if the world wins the battle for freedom, what will happen to the war?
I seriously doubt about fight with fire for something white...
is there something else with which we fight?
We tend to make the mistake of fighting with ourselves. That's what destroys us inside, isn't that?
can we do other than fight with ourselves?
even when we believe we are fighting with someone/something else?
What if there is, in our minds, the idea of us being the best weapon...would we then want to stop fighting with ourselves?
what if we loved the weapon?
Wouldn't that make us destroyers?
destroyers of what?
Anything that we decide to use the weapon with...what else could a weapon be used for?
a deterrant, a warning...not to be used.
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