There is a moment in life [perhaps only in our dreams] when each of us is perched on a ledge facing our fear of the future [see photo]. As we peer into the future we are confronted with an abyss. Beyond this ledge lies endless amounts of ambiguity, uncertainty, and freedom.
Unexpectedly, perhaps, it is the freedom that we fear the most. This fear of freedom is not often spoken about in our mundane lives. Freedom is what we have been taught to avoid. Freedom is what we dare not face. Freedom is the barrier that our mind erects to keep us on the ledge. Freedom as seen from this ledge means release from the certainty, sameness, and conformity of the past. Freedom as presented to us from this ledge means death to our past.
The future is what confronted Alice in Wonderland. She spied ambiguity in the happenings at The Tea Party where she was invited to have more of something she has not even sipped. She spied high degrees of uncertainty when the Red Queen yelled "off with her head" because this order was to be performed in the future, not the present, nor the past. She spied endless examples of conformity because every question she offered became the excuse for another riddle. In her travels through Wonderland; Alice finds herself perched on the ledge between images of her past childhood and her future adulthood. As she sits there, locked inside her dream, she faces the fear of freedom offered by an upside-down world.
You are more fortunate than Alice in at least one respect. You do not have to dream about an upside-down world because it surrounds you in all the waking hours of your mundane life. But. In one other respect you might envy Alice because she can dream about freedom. She can plan her imaginary future with the clear and certain knowledge that she can choose her path. The upside-down world you live in is defined by the lack of freedom on offer for you.
Perhaps it is this perceived lack of freedom that has you stricken with fear [see the girl in the photo] as you peer into the abyss of your future.
Richard
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