11. Can I offer myself something else ?

Can I Offer Myself Something Else ?

by Ori

I know that I can offer myself a struggle

My dad did this before, and so have I, for many years.

It’s familiar

There is always something to struggle with,

And to offer myself a struggle is nothing special

If there is a great addiction to humanity

It is the addiction to the drama - to the struggle

In the past when we had no power, it was the elements that we had to

struggle with

But now it should be clear,

All the struggles are self created

And all the drama is of our own making

This question is not a simple question

Because our reality is that if I can’t, if we can’t

offer ourselves something else,

then we are going to destroy ourselves.

If all we have to offer ourselves is the endless

Need to overcome,

Then we will soon be faced with the impossibility of our predicament

a world of struggle that we are invested in creating

So I ask you,

Can you offer yourself any other experience ?

Struggle is easy, and our addiction to it is evident

Anything else ?