Walking In Peace, With Love

••● Chapter 2: A Secret to Keep ●••

There I was in the middle of the forest. Again, pleasant silence allowed me to hear the sound of nature. This time, I was alone.

I was still, in a way, paralyzed by that mysterious interaction with that unknown girl. As if the surprise of finding a girl with blue hair, eyebrows and eyelashes in a forest wasn't enough, she said she knew me and seemed to have the answers to my questions before I could even finish elaborating them in my thoughts. I knew that from then on, something big would begin, but as she had said, I still couldn't understand it.

I came back home. Arriving there, I realized that something had changed. The environment and everyone remained the same, but I felt more uncomfortable about the noise. I felt the sounds of the devices and the interactions of my family members conveying restlessness to me, I felt the need to balance myself, to calm down, as monks do when meditating. I had become more sensitive to all the agitation energy.

A few days passed and I looked for ways to meditate, but I couldn't concentrate, I was always interrupted by something or someone.

I felt powerless to interact with my loved ones, I felt that I needed to nourish my being with something, and that if this once existed in my home, it could no longer be found there. I had doubts and I knew that all my thirst for answers would be satisfied there, wherever that blue-haired girl was.

Following my intuition, I woke up early, on another beautiful sunny morning, I prepared my breakfast while thinking if it was foolish of me to think that she would be there, in that forest again, at the same time as last time. I put on my shoes and followed that same path, arriving at the forest. I went inside hoping she was there, but it didn't last long. She was there again, just like me. It crossed my mind that she liked being there at that time of day. That alone would explain why she was there again. I approached her, stopping next to her again. Her gaze, as always, was directed to the clouds, to the clear skies of that beautiful day, in complete peace. Noticing my presence, she looked at me affectionately and said gently: "Hello!" I greeted her back with the same gesture, before she returned her gaze to the peaceful blue sky.

Discreetly, I watched her contemplate the infinite above us, while the wind came towards us, silently. At that moment I concluded that I liked her, her presence, it calmed me, much more than my attempts to meditate; It brought me peace, without me even knowing why. She appeared to be kind and innocent, although her few moments of dialogue also showed her to be someone of refined wisdom. It was nice to be by her side.

We spent like the previous day, a long and comforting time reconnecting with nature, admiring it and feeling it in silence. When after a deep sigh she said to me:

- A lot has already changed about you. Today your mind is more open to the liberating truths that the world is still waiting to receive, it is also calmer, more friendly. You are light - smiling, she said to me: - in fact, there was no need to rush through the coffee, don't be in a hurry, take life in a gentle way and you will find yourself sane in this world full of ideas lacking reason - I was impressed when she mentioned my breakfast: it referred to something I made in record time, before coming to the woods. She nailed it.

- How would you know that? So far I've only said hi to you.

- We don't just talk with our mouth. In fact, your movements scream, your breathing screams, your doubts scream. You need to control the flame to keep warm, or you will end up getting burned; the gentleness of the waves so that you can sail peacefully.

- And how do you hear what you don't say with your mouth?

- Feels. Feel life, feel beings, nature, feel yourself... sit in the present moment with your life, with respect and devotion. Feel the air fill your lungs and energize you, feel your skin, stop and notice that you exist here and now! Forget the past, the future. Become aware of life, feel your heartbeat, the internal heat of your body, notice how pleasant it is to breathe, you are not aware of these things now, you are lost, you don't know what you want, what to do, you don't notice the beauty of life.