The Life Of An Old Man Put In The Service Of Emptiness
The way you approach the reality of other people, can raise or demolish your inner world.
A scene from the movie "No Country for Old Men (2007)". Anton Chigurh, the cold-blooded killer, stops at a gas station, somewhere in the middle of the desert. He was the kind of man who has not aimed for a certain morality, but believed in an arrangement of all things in this world; a malefic force, a wanderer who threatens to condemn everyone to damnation. He had the tendency to treat people with an authority whom all received pretty badly.
In a polite manner, the old man from the counter, while calculating the price of gasoline, tries to carry a conversation with Chigurh, the foreigner. A fatal mistake. Such like a character of Victor Hugo, no special future seemed to await him. No bud of ambition, not longer dared to blossom in his shadow. He voluntarily has dug his grave.
Chigurh got out from his pocket a coin of twenty-five cents and threw it up, making it to spin in the cold and bluish glare of the fluorescent lamp from above. He caught it and dropped it on the back of the forearm.
"Choose, he said."
As a man caught in the trapping of an inexorable fate, the old man replied anxiously:
"I did not put anything at stake."
"Yes, you put it. You put your life at stake. Only that you do not realize it."
"There's no logic what you say, mister."
"Choose ! "
How impatient is death ! The old man put in front of an existential process. A confrontation between denial and acceptance, between death and life, between lucklessness and chance. A decisive response to the climate of insecurity in which he woke up suddenly. As if all the forces of destiny would have united against him. Credo in parem !
What an incomprehensible confusion, like a tangled network of cables connected to their own generator. Like if he was asked to willingly carry a huge cross on his back, a struggle, probably established for a long time with himself, the emptiness of a single roll of the dice. How much mind it takes for a man to put his life in such a way in the service of emptiness?
"Alright. Heads then."
Did you question the distinction between "free will" and "the terrible promontory of thought"?
The way you contribute to the understanding of reality outlines that loop of responsibility that surrounds you, isolate you and pulls you to a state of perfect peace through detachment from the turmoil of the world. Or, conversely, it pulls you to a state of self-alienation, respectively, to not be able to see yourself as you thought you knew yourself.
At the moment of a different life experience you become more conscious of that Ego that experiences the fullness of sensitivity, weakness and indecision, which means the aspiration of the human spirit towards what is true, good and beautiful. Ego, which in its turn highlights your qualities, beliefs, mental and emotional structure.
Or, as someone said, you are the creator of your own reality, by the thoughts that you put together in order to form the overall picture, which after, through observation, you physically materialize it.
Freedom of the will may prompt us to believe that the end of our existence as free beings, endowed with conscience, will come as the years pass, once with the decision to separate us from our beliefs in favor of accepting the decisions of others, more authoritarian and better administrators of the campaign of transforming the objective reality. Through everything that we are and do in the transition towards a more responsible stage of maturation, through our reason and our emotions, we become more aware of our impact on what surrounds us and what we get in return from others.
Free will occurs when we become aware of our thoughts and keep them under control. It is responsible for what we create in our reality when we decide the choice of action.
Victor Hugo said beautiful in the thrilling study about Shakespeare: "Every man has in him his Patmos. He is free to go or not along that frightful promontory of thought, from whose summit the depths of darkness are visible."
In this case "the frightful promontory of thought from whose summit the depths of darkness are visible" refers precisely to the restriction of the freedom of will. It is the break between our inner and outer world for the benefit of someone else. It is the distrust that arises from our own beliefs, which limits our freedom of choice, limits us and turns us into the absolute slaves of a foreign and too invasive reality. It is the result of a struggle, probably established for a long time with ourselves. The emptiness of a single throw of the dice. A confrontation between denial and acceptance, between lucklessness and chance.
How much mind we need to put in this way our life in the service life of emptiness?
Are you being asked to bear a blame that does not belong to you?
We catch ourselves in our own trap, misled by that state to feel defeated, destroyed, and lost like a blind eagle looking for his prey. Like a release of souls, of mentalities, attitudes, at the command of a supreme authority. The consequence of a decisive response to the climate of insecurity in which we woke up suddenly. As if all the forces of destiny would have united against us, we move away from the right track in favor of something else, wrong and unsafe - a departure from the freedom to be who we actually are.
To connect with the reality of people who cannot tolerate very well the idea of equality, harmonizing with them at the psychic and emotional level through a defeated attitude, it is as if someone would ask to carry a fault that does not belong to us, and to live with it forever. A fault that automatically isolates us, restricting all our rights and freedoms, imposing us other laws, other rights and other debts.
The main difficulty of the man subjected to doubt is to reach some safer conclusions in terms of supporting your solidarity towards a stronger reasoning that knows to capitalize upon itself in relation to its reference attributes and to use them for its own purposes.
To mount the promontory of consciousness full of regret and guilt means to approach the part of yourself that is still hurt by the number one aggressor: accepting to be a limited being.
Trying to get closer to a higher level of consciousness is an endless journey in search of inner truth, the highest virtues that make you a survivor of the phenomenon called "free will" or a master of the mental game.
The life of an old man put in the service of emptiness designates the dark side of reality, which guides us along the transformations that we experience. A kind of response to what happens when we accept that the outside world to dominate our inner world, in the matrix of the hazard.
God created us as little as possible, someone said. Freedom, this power of being the guide, this faculty of the merit, wants that the man to recover by himself... by maximizing his abilities to be what he actually is, under the umbrella of the freedom of the will.
The way you approach the reality of other people, can raise or demolish your inner world.
