I should start this discussion by saying that
lately I have been thinking about something that just can’t be avoided. It might
seem random but the thought that has been consuming me is the one about war. It
takes many shapes and each of them has a different influence among people. The
one I am most concerned of, and the one I will start debating on, is about the
war between bodies, or in other words, if you can call it so, an ordinary war.
Why
don’t you agree?
The first thing that went through my mind
is obviously a let’s say painting. I will start from the beginning. Imagine a
white piece of paper and yourself, starting to create a landscape with a brush
that can not only make your work of art realistic, but can also bring it to
life. So choose your colors and choose them wisely! You know what they say; one
wrong move and the whole thing can turn out into a complete disaster. So paint
your lands and paint the strongest warriors you have in your mind, but don’t
forget, it doesn’t matter how many you make, you need to keep on going. Got it
so far?
I am not sure that I completely follow.
Neither
do I, so keep on going!
As
I was saying, this need of repeatedly and non-stop duty will sooner or later exhaust
me, thing I should stop from happening. But here comes the big question: “How?”
How in the world can you keep your chin up when your colors are almost over and
the only one remaining is the one that must not be used?
Which
is?
Red!
Red is the color that symbolizes the
tragedy, the blood. The war has begun! Pain, sorrow? Yes, it’s everywhere.
Everywhere I look I can see people suffering, my lands shivering and my people,
oh my people are soon to be gone. The ones that used to keep their shields up
are now crying for help; they are terrified, they are fading from my painting as
I, with my own free will chose to erase them.
So you mean…?
Yes!
That’s exactly what I mean! Once used red you can never go back. Tell me now, isn’t
this the worst and most awful painting you would ever see?
Truth be told, it wouldn’t. You see… I have
been thinking about war these days as well. But not about the one you mentioned
earlier but about one much deeper, let’s say a more spiritual one, the one
between souls, or in other words, another war.
So you can give this painting another
meaning? Is that what you want to say?
I believe I do, and I believe I can not only
give it another meaning but also change your whole point of view when it comes
to what’s truly an awful painting.
If you don’t mind I will grab a piece of
paper myself and start throwing colors all around it, not giving it a certain
meaning. No landscapes, not trying to make it look realistic because this painting
will bring itself to life. So I chose my colors and I chose them wisely.
But…
I know
what they say! So I’ll paint randomly the
strongest feelings, not warriors, I have in my soul but no matter how hard I’ll
try I will never be able to make something easily understood.
All
of us have at least once been through the battle of our soul against another.
It’s that moment when you do not use your body but you follow your instincts,
you do what you desire or what you are forced to do. Imagine that from my
combination of colors you see with the eyes of your soul, love, and you can
only use your sealed lips that can reach out to another pair alike, and can
only hear with your deaf ears the silence while the screaming ache brings you
pain.
That
still doesn’t mean that this soul to soul battle outmatches the ordinary war.
In fact…
Just wait and listen carefully! Imagine
yourself being handcuffed and tied up not being able to say, hear, or see
anything, but yet again you feel the urge of saying things, hearing things, and
seeing things. What happens then? You
would pick the ordinary war which you’ve just spoken about, because you could
use your strength, your judgment and the help of the others. Remember! The
biggest difference between these two wars is the fact that you get help, I
don’t! It’s one soul against another, and that; that brings a lot of pain!
I believe you are right!
Unfortunately,
I don’t!
My turn to represent my vision on a piece of
paper! So wipe the paintings and let’s
reset! Have you ever wondered that it
might be a third type of war? I’m going to turn your world upside down. Indeed
there is another type, a combination between the ones you’ve both talked about,
the one between bodies and souls or in other words, the last war. No landscapes, no brushes, not anything at
all. Just a wise choice of colors which combines two opposite, but yet again,
two things that can’t be one without the other.
So I’ll let you paint this one for me with the bounding between your
tough battles! We all know that the body
united with the soul makes one unique human being, but when one is not in
complete harmony with the other…
Then what?!
Then, the body is the prison for the soul, and
if the soul is imprisoned in the body then it blocks its evolution leading to a
horrifying result! The dualism between the body and the soul is clearly evident,
and due to this fact, the body is the subservient and the soul is in charge. However
it is just that the soul is the master while the body is the obedient
servant.
Enlighten
me for a moment! I do want to understand it’s just…
Don’t
worry! It’s not as complicated as it seems. Hand me the brush and follow my
lead with your imagination! The soul inspires what we should do, like the
driver who decides where he wants to go. Oh, one more thing, here comes a new
element, the mind or so that you can continue imaginating, the leader of the
body. It takes the inspiration and finds a way to achieve the soul’s goal like a
steering wheel. The body performs what
has to be done, like the car which takes the driver to his desired
destination. If the soul knows what do
to in our interest and the body just obeys to commands, then it is pretty clear
that most of the problems we meet in our lives can find their happy ending.
So, if it is such a good balance between these
two how can you say there is a war between them? You’ve lost me as well…
Look! The human being it’s a miraculous fusion
of three polar opposites, the soul, the body and the mind, living in
contradiction. But let me ask you something, what if the mind does misinterpret
the souls directions, what if it doesn’t find the right way to reach the
destination, the light at the end of the tunnel, the balance, or in other words, what would the unskilled human do if he can’t drive the
car?
But that would mean…
Yes,
it means he will end up losing his way. One last thing, remember, the soul says
what, the mind finds how and the body does it! So let’s combine the paintings
as we agreed on. What do we see?
The
first shows the pure blood thirst, the ability of a group of individuals
training for a huge battle, the supreme sacrifice, and the total involvement
into a cause which has its result reaching out for the greater good …
And the second?
The second shows that in this kind of war
there are involved feelings, disappointments, achievements and the incapability
of using anything but your own soul as a weapon but not being able to have the
body as a shield.
What about the third?
The
third shows that in order to avoid a war, a human being will need to be at a
full concentration rate so that he will not bring him or others the catastrophic
outcome.
So which one of these do you think is
considered the worst war of them all?
