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?
6 comments:
Would it mean you're dry as long as ou want to be?
am i ever anything as long as i want to be?
am i ever anything for as short a period of time as i want to be?
and if i am, what happens next?
When you've the choise of making decisioins, you are.
Next would be the decision's consequence, wouldn't it?
or the decision's question....
Everything that could happen. Too much, don't you think?
isn't it always too much?
although it often seems like not enough....
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