Free Yourself and Enjoy Life (Part II)

I once knew a woman who believed that she knew all about people, life and her purpose in the world. The reality was that she was blind to her lack of awareness of the world around her and of herself. She talked the talk about passion, leadership, commitment and openness to change. If she had the eyes of an outsider, she would have seen her own passionless, dreary existence in a career that had not fundamentally changed in over twenty five years. She was the quintessential bureaucrat--a paper pusher without vision, dreams or a desire to fulfill a leadership role in the community intended to bring out the best in herself and others around her. She was satisfied with the status quo. Unchanging and content to do things as they have been done year after year. She was always quick to point out the lack of dimension in others but when it came to herself she was ignorant of her own failure to see. Closed-minded about other perspectives and limiting her thinking to established paradigms, her world was humourless and as limited as she was. Don’t even think of asking her to participate in activities intended to free the soul from inhibitions and limitations. It was off-limits. Taboo. She was a walking corpse without passion or life affirming qualities. Only a stiff collecting a paycheck awaiting burial. The child she had was withdrawn, unsmiling, sickly. And doomed to the same existence.