Life in the aquarium

Every week we go sailing, or at least boating. We go out during the day, but sometimes even at night. We take random people who have never been on the boat before. And night after night you can always here: “Oh look, you can see the stars!”

What happened to you America? How come your people cannot see the stars?

I got an answer for it and it is not Americas’ problem that you cannot see stars… You are the part of the problem. You wonder why? Because you are afraid of dark. You are also afraid of bugs or spiders, of too much of the sun or cold water, of strange people and anything you don’t know.

And that is why you build barriers and boundaries around yourself. You put yourself willingly into an aquarium, so you can see outside, but nothing can hurt you. My question is: “Is this a real life, though?” You are preventing yourself from experiencing what matters.

You are surprised, why are you sick, but it’s just because you weren’t exposed to any kind of bacteria/viruses growing up. You didn’t come in contact with dirt, grass, or polluted water. Now you are sick, have allergies, or asthma…

You are surprised, you are alone, but it’s because it is too much work to have functional relationship. I know all those excuses that you never grew up in the functional relationship – your parents are divorced for ages. And what? Are you living your parents’ life? You were thought that you are the star, the number one and of course that is why you don’t want to share. That is also why you are expecting that there is some bigger and better out there for you. You don’t want to be the one who settle for ‘just someone’. And behold… You are alone…

You are so alienated even to yourself that you are uncomfortable even being naked. You need to cover yourself even when passing from your room to the restroom (because it’s not classy to say toilet). Do you think you were born dressed up? You just popped out of the womb in a little tuxedo saying: “Good evening, gentlemen.”

Wake up people! Turn your light off and look at the stars!