The little things

Escaping the Labyrinth

Sometimes I believe Alaska was right. The best way out of the Labyrinth is straight and fast.

It sometimes seems the only way out of our Labyrinth of suffering, but then I realise this is my individual Labyrinth. I chose the Labyrinth and surely I can change it.

By putting my mind to it I can make the walls collapse before me, I can make the entire thing crumble to the ground.

But surely if I had chosen to do that I would've done it long ago, so for some reason I chose to stay within the walls of my Labyrinth.

Sometimes I believe it's because my suffering makes me who I am, I shapes my character, gives me the feelings and heart I have today.

Strip it away and what am I? I may always be happy, but I don't understand others pain, I am heartless without meaning to be.

Happiness doesn't mean kindness, because kindness comes with experience, understanding and empathy, without suffering I have none of that.

Other times I believe we aren't meant to escape the Labyrinth, we are meant to live it. And those who try and find a way to escape, often find sadness and their lives end far too soon.

But only adults try and find a way to escape because only they see it as a Labyrinth. Children don't try and escape, but they see it as a fun maze, they enjoy it, even the frustrations of dead ends and getting completely and utterly lost.

I believe we should all loose ourselves in the Labyrinth, and become children again, finding the fun.

The way to escape the Labyrinth is to live in it, but never see it as a Labyrinth, see it as a child would. The world through a child's eyes is a much more wonderful place.

But then again maybe it's not about living in the Labyrinth, maybe you can never have a life while in the Labyrinth, maybe it's just about surviving.

And we can only survive by forgiving or not forgiving, there is no middle ground. Forgiving the mistakes people make.

Because if you do not forgive your other option is to run, and you have to decide who to forgive and who to run from because some people by forgiveness or running will lead you further into the Labyrinth and other will guide you out.

But what if the Labyrinth isn't just the finite time that everybody assumes life to be and that The Great Perhaps cannot be found while inside the Labyrinth but only once you escape it.

Thomas Edison's last words were "It's very beautiful over there" What if he were not referring to the afterlife but to what life really is and what we are living now is merely a preparation for what life will hold.

What if everybody has their time in the Labyrinth to spend on ways of learning how to escape it.

Those who accept the Labyrinth as their finite time to be 'alive' will never learn how to escape it, and thus will never reach The Great Perhaps.

But others spend their time figuring out how to escape the Labyrinth and reach the great perhaps. Now some will figure it out faster then others, but it's not about who dies first and dying isn't escaping the Labyrinth, many die without ever reaching The Great Perhaps.

First you have to figure out how to escape. Dying is merely the means of getting there. But just because you've figured it out doesn't mean you have to die.

People like Alaska may choose to because they simply cannot wait. Others choose to stay and see what the Labyrinth has left to teach them.

But everybody has to figure out their own way to escape the Labyrinth, nobody's is ever the same.

But now I have a final question:

How are you going to escape The Labyrinth?

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