Choose your own adventure: Pensive

Imagine you are walking along your own path, in your own pace, knowing full well that you are following your own trail, fully and wholly committed to being alone in that kind of peaceful journey. You have a clear road that you can see from your own vantage point. Whatever the weather, be it sunny, rainy, windy, stormy the path is clear and it stretches far and wide but it doesn’t scare you because you know that you are just on the right road. You say to yourself, however long the distance is, you are secured of it until the bitter end because you know that deep in yourself you have found the required stability and determination to cover the distance, whatever it takes. You have it in yourself to surmount the challenges, you have it in yourself to conquer the demons of those belonging to yourself, of those belonging to others, of those belonging to the world. You know you have it. You are so sure you have it in yourself, you have reserves of those inner strengths, you know which ones are those that you have to grow, those to develop or those to master, you are so complete unto yourself. Being full of wisdom, you don’t keep your weaknesses from yourself, instead you are painfully aware of them and you are utilizing time and experiences to at least turn these weaknesses into a receptacle for transformation, not only for yourself but for others. You have found how to use the power of weaknesses to heal, to connect and to observe. That is a kind of power you know you have. You heal people whatever it takes. There are no rules on how to heal another soul, all you know is that you have to heal them and you have healed them, no matter what it takes. Healing may come from light, healing may come from dark, whatever the source, you know where it will lead to. Magical, mysterious but it does the work. Healing becomes you. You wield it responsibly by your own system, by your own dictates, own creed, because you were chosen and given that power. And of course, you have more, you know more, you feel more and you see more. That is who you are. And you know it. You go on with life, following the road with this full knowledge of who you are. So secure of your way.

You belong to yourself. And you are so sure that nobody can take that resolve away from you.

Then along the way, you will find another kind of fellow traveler, you thought you were alone in this path, but somehow there’s someone there all along. The fellow is someone you intuitively know you share some traits with. You were alone for so long, so curiously you were drawn to that traveler. You crossed paths with someone you aren’t expecting at all. And then you learned a little from each other, you started to talk, to exchange ideas, to know more of each other. But you are not sure about this pleasant surprise. Definitely, it is something new, when you talk, some curiosities are satisfied, some are validated, but somehow you want to know more. But the fellow of course has own set of rules, set of ways, own system. You grow more and more curious and perhaps fond of the fellow. And the fellow curiously enough, found a door along the path and opened it and shut the door from the inside.

Question, will you open the door and follow the fellow or just continue with your own journey, set on your own ways, secured in your own path, alone?

But of course, you are curious. You try to quietly inspect the door. Listened intently through the handle. Peering from the small crack at the bottom. You try to intuit. You try to use your powers, selfishly this time to find out more. Did you find out more?

Now, you have to think. If you open the door, there are infinite scenarios waiting. One would be, it can be a closed room with four walls, empty room, devoid of anything. The usual physical expectations, the safest one. The next one would be, a door that opens to watery surface, enough to drown your knees. The waters here can be calming but you only see the surface. Or the weird one is that you can open the door and find yourself at the seabed, under the sea, the ocean has eventually swallowed you whole. Fortunately, you know how to swim.

So, what would you do next?