February 23rd, 2007
Kiting
They look so free up there, attached to their string. Have you ever met someone who seemed so free, but, on getting to know him or her, was tightly attached?
Transcriptorial: open blue skies, all possibility / tugging at the strings like freedom / such lies a kite tells
Must be a Chinese thing, they invented ‘em…
We’re all confined somehow. Some strings are just more visible than most. It’s a matter of noticing and then either accepting them or doing something about them.
The strings that bind us also allow us to experience what we live.
Without our bindings we would be free and yet cease to be.
Without boundaries, there is no freedom.
How free is a kite without a string? As I recall, it doesn’t get very far…
Give me “strings-attached” anytime. Those strings are life-giving.
A kite without a string floats away entirely, has no control.
Imagine what we’d do if we had no boundaries, no morals… that’s a scary thought and I think a lot of people would be unhappy. There’s also a certain satisfaction in abstaining from something you shouldn’t do.