![]() ![]() There are so many rooms, so many other closets! The laundry is … just the laundry, not a reason and meaning of one’s existence. One starts to believe that he has no right to even be alive in the closet, being this inadequate.īut what happens when one leaves the closet? All of a sudden the reality becomes huge, boundless. If one fails in this tasks one believes herself worthless, useless, not good enough. Folding laundry properly, distributing it to appropriate shelves, is the most important thing. The closet becomes one’s reality, the only reality, and so the things that are happening in the closet become very, very important - because that is all there is to life. One knows exactly what to do in the closet. It feels good in there, nothing ever changes, the rules are few and clear. My favorite example to illustrate that is a person who has a grand, beautiful mansion - but chooses to live in a closet. On the contrary - if we deny or resist the transition - we close ourselves up, we are cutting ourselves off and preventing ourselves from growing, from expending. The more we can create it the way we want it to look like. I believe that the more we embrace each stage, the more fully and completely we can take responsibility for it, the more we can become unique in it. ![]() Then we make another transition, out of this body. The older we grow the more uniquely ourselves can we become. We become more and more mature, with each transition we have the opportunity of becoming more and more responsible for our reality. As we grow we transition into being a teenager, then into being an adult. The first one is when we transition into the human body, we call it birth. Each of them brings us closer to realizing who we are, to fulfilling our potential, to becoming wholly unique. Each of them makes our world bigger, our perspective larger, or horizons broader. Each of them opens us to another, wholly new way of perceiving reality. Life here, on earth, in human body, offers us several transitions, changes. The little things of life, sweet and excellent in their place, must not be the things lived for the highest must be sought and followed the life of heaven must be begun here on earth.” When she came to the end of one life it must not be to face the next with the shrinking terror of something wholly different - something for which accustomed thought and ideal and aspiration had unfitted her. It must not be with her as with poor butterfly Ruby. On the surface it would go on just the same but the deeps had been stirred. Life held a different meaning, a deeper purpose. ![]() The evening had changed something for her. There had been nothing in her gay, frivolous life, her shallow ideals and aspirations, to fit her for that great change, or make the life to come seem to her anything but alien and unreal and undesirable (…) Anne walked home very slowly in the moonlight. “Heaven could not be what Ruby had been used to. I thought: how is it that a game like that could appear and become this popular? There must have a been a space held for it to appear - how do we hold this space? How do we make it possible for this kind of outlook on reality to be that popular, that common, that acceptable?Īs I thought about it a quote from one of my beloved books came to me: I thought about what damage this game might cause, about how justified parent’s protest was, and … the more I thought about it the more it appeared to me more as a symptom, than the cause of damage. I checked the game’s website yesterday - it seems all the outrage produces some results, the diet pills have been discontinued. Parents are outraged and horrified to hear their young daughters discussing whether they should get breast implants of rather invest in facelift for their bimbos. Psychologists, educators, all cried in alarm. When the game showed up in Great Britain it terrified parents almost as much as it delighted their kids. Players range anywhere from 9 years old to 15 years old. In Great Britain 200.000 girls join the game within a single month, in France within a year the game had almost a million and a half of players. To take care of the bimbo player must also find her a “sponsor” - rich boyfriend who can pay for her. To achieve that goal players can take their bimbo shopping, give her various fancy haircuts, keep her appropriately slim using various diets, diet pills, etc., keep the bimbo young and tempting by applying appropriate plastic surgery: facelifts, breast implants, etc. A player creates an avatar (a sort of a digital representation of themselves) and the object of the game is to make the avatar-bimbo as popular, as fashionable, as famous as possible. I read an article yesterday about a new computer game which, apparently, is quickly becoming extremely popular among French and British teenagers and children. ![]()
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