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?
16 comments:
Question is : Where are you ??
Good question!
In my own world, perhaps.....
hmmmm...so...is that a enclosed world you have ???
enclosed in the sense that i cannot get out of it to become someone else.......
A silk worm builds a cocoon around itself,but it can always break out
So maybe there is a time to be in a cocoon, growing a new way of being..,and a time to break free. But if someone breaks into the cocoon....,
why would someone do that????Don't let them.
Curiosity...not recognizing boundaries...
Not recognizing what a cocoon is.
The butterfly dies :(....
ah, but we need beings who fly....
beautiful ones...:)...but ya, let's also forgive those who breaks into the cocoon ....:)
I wonder if they know what is necessary before flight can happen…
:(...hard and tedious journey ...but remember ...we are never alone :)
So does the person breaking into the cocoon not recognize the journey or not believe in flight?
May be both...they don't have the perseverance for the journey, or maybe they are afraid of flights :)
Yes, it does take perseverance...and fear can be a weapon....
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