searching to be free ...searching searching and reaching for knowledge like the Serpent told Eve as she picked fallen apples: "If you really think you're going to blow this taco stand and plant your own garden, girlfriend, you have got to stop settling for the shit that falls at your feet! Look up and stretch your body. Does that feel good? Do you love your body?" Eve gave us original courage. She taught the world that to live is to learn. I wouldn't argue with her. A little human courage goes a long fucking way in this world. ...to be free We are all birthed free by mama earth. But soon we forget to appreciate her gift. We learn to fear...to repress...to conform... to be so much less than we truly are. We learn to build walls out of our fear to shut out what we don't understand and to shut ourselves in. And the walls get built in ever narrowing concentric circles until we are all walled up in our fortress of fear and nothing remains of our true self. But alas fear has no backbone and the walls can be torn down just as they can be built. A little human courage goes a long fucking way in this world. still searching to be freeBirth sign: Pisces
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