You’re about to go outside your local area in a quest located in a land of legends. Many people know the story, but they are afraid to tell about it. You cannot perceive the fear of their hearts, but their gossip talking is making you think about it, but not too much because you know it’s not true. But one thing is true: once you go there, you’ll never be the same again. You go despite of that idea; you know you’ll find awesome things out there. Your closest ones got astonished at first, but then they understood it will be for you own good.
But the opportunity to go and the offer it was projected didn’t make you think about it again, so like a good adventurer, you go out to that dreamed adventure searching the unthinkable, finding the extraordinary thing, collecting the most valuable objects, confronting the fearful paths as you follow your course. Although your objective is not clear at first, you’re sure they won’t make you stop.
You see the usual things you know as you walk away: the houses, the animals, and all the people who see you as another one who will try to make it happen. For some reason, you feel something strange, as if they doubted about you, but at the same time they were motivating you. You continue anyway, not paying attention to the stares of the people, and you stand there, at the most far known thing you ever touched: a big wooden gate with an extended bridge, one of the most amazed things you’ve ever seen, always opened for adventurers like you. You pass the gate and crossed the bridge, and turn your way into the forest.
You enter the forest, colorful and magnificent as always, getting a lot of ideas and dreams to fulfill, and fantasying a prosperous reward for passing the unbeatable. As you continue walking, the route goes more into the deep. Strange sounds and unseen things moving around as you walk deeper and deeper. It is getting darker, but you feel they're guiding you to the deepest place of the forest. You cannot deny you are feeling anxious, afraid, nervous, doubtful, uncomfortable. But you also feel some excitement, some interest, some motivation, some reason to make you continue walking. You feel so excited to get outside of the forest, to see the other side of it, and you stop thinking about everything else…
At that moment you got yourself into the abyss. All those emotions blocked you from seeing the bottomless hole, and when you felt your feet wasn't touching ground anymore, you realized of everything you have left behind, and that’s when emotions took control of you. You don’t feel you are falling but the sensation wasn’t good at all. Tears fall on your face and you can’t handle it. Your mind is filled with emotional events that make you feel lonely, useless, unable to avoid the falling, unable to control your emotion…
You don’t get it. How something that seemed to be easy became so complicated like this? You don’t want to believe that nonsense they tell about. But you are seeing that from your own eyes! The thought distortion is making you wander around in the nothing. The events of the past gets you annoyed, even if deeper in your heart you don’t want to accept that emotion. You get in an emotional fight with some rational thinking. “I don’t want to feel angry. I don’t want to hurt everybody because from my nonsense. I don’t want to be lonely. I don’t want to cry. I don’t want to cry! I don’t want to cry….”
And then you got smashed onto something solid. You had forgotten you were falling, but now you feel you’re on ground again. As you incorporate and get on feet, you see all around you: although the place seems to be wide, it was gloomy and in a dark ambiance. All your emotions are fading away, but something weird is going on. When you thought everything was over, a strong sensation got you from behind, like a wind, as if it blew you from the back. You looked up to see a tremendous glow emerged from the nowhere and in front of you, a big monster, with strong fangs and terrific claws, and he sees you with his piercing eyes.
You act instinctively as you draw with your hand your most reliable weapon towards the monster, but the rest of the body was extremely paralyzed. Your legs were shaking from the fear, you feel your sweat all over your skin, and your body can’t respond to anything. You don’t realize what going on with you! Only you can perceive the monster’s eyes, and your hand that has the weapon stands still, pointing to the monster.
What’s going on? Is that a test of courage? You can’t deny the objective is here, but you think it doesn’t make sense. How this is the reason of your adventure? This does NOT what you want of your life! Living here with strange feelings that covers your head and take control of it is not what you want. Only you want to get out of here, that everything you are feeling finishes soon. The rational thought that makes you reach the ground came again. But this time it was different: “I don’t want to cry…, but I don’t want to do nothing about it, I came here for a purpose, and I want to do what it is possible in order to obtain it. If I’m here is because I took a first step, so I can’t leave like this the entire path I have walked until now.” As you said those last words, everything came dark, you don’t see the monster, and your thoughts are not there anymore, only the ones you have said. Slowly, everything became calm. And then something came to the mind. “This is the deepest place of that forest…” But without seeing trees and plants, you realize something else. “This is the deepest place of my mind…”
What you are, where you came from, what you want to achieve appeared in front of you. Those things you have thought before you decided to take on this adventure covered your body feeling better. A warm feeling of Great Conviction…, you feel you are ready to face your fears and get ready for a real fight.
Everything seems to return to the state before the mild darkness. The gloomy ambiance, the strange feeling, and the ferocious monster, are still there. You see them as always, but you are ready now to make a decision. You don’t mind what happened to your body before, even your natural condition, you know one thing, and it was face the monster it was in front of you.
Suddenly, the monster advanced near you, as if it was waiting for that moment. You get a firm grip to your weapon and advanced towards it. The monster prepared to attack and opened his mouth, but you easily dodged that attack. You attacked with your weapon with all your might, but it didn’t seem to hurt the monster. He threw you away with a strong force. You fell far away from him. It’s too powerful for you to beat that monster, and doesn’t get hurt to any to your attacks you make. For a second you forgot your reason and jumped towards the monster. You felt you were floating and the monster faded away, but the reason returned and you landed again. And then you see it, how the monster was covered in that mist of darkness. Your reason became stronger and that mist materialized again in that monster, but now the ambiance of the place was becoming less gloomy and brighter than before.
Something else was appearing behind the monster, it was a tiny glow of light, approaching to you. You perceive familiar voices from that light, echoing in the place, becoming louder and clearer. It was the voice of everyone they know you, the ones who said it was no crazy thing to go on that adventure. Their motivating voices gave you more strength, and then you feel you are not alone, you are special to them, you mean something to them, and its lives have something to continue into battle. You don’t care too much about everything else, only for the ones they cheering for you, and the initiative of action. The place trembles as it knows you have control of your mind and crashes in pieces. A subtle light surrounds the place, but the monster is still there. All the darkness made the monster bigger, but you know that trick is useless now. Only one thing is needed to do. With your mind in Great Concentration, you summoned the Light that seals the Dark from you.
A powerful glow of light appeared from the above, and covered completely the figure of the monster. “You’ll be sorry for concentrating your darkness like that, now you are sealed away from me!” After then everything became shiny, you close your eyes. All the emotions, all the logical things, all the motivation, it was very lousy, like they’re want to get you once again. But you maintain your reason still, your objectives, and also, the motivation and the route to get to the goal.
And then, everything disappeared: only silence was the one present.
You open your eyes. You see that you are still in the forest. It wasn’t as dark as before. In fact, you were standing in front of a big tree, and around that tree the rays of the sun that can touch the ground; a wide area in the middle of the forest, with only a big tree at the center of it. At one moment you were confused of what happened earlier, but now you know it was part of the adventure you had with yourself and your mind.
But at the other side of the wide area, near another tree, you see a figure lying on the ground. It seems to be a person. You run towards that human, and when you stopped running you realized that person is you, but it was only a child. You got surprised to see your inner child in this forest (and also to see it in person). Your inner child looked up over you, and then stood up on feet. You see yourself as a child as if it was natural. It was incredible to see something like that. And then your inner child opened the mouth.
“Take me with you!” Those were the words you clearly heard with a strong voice. You’ll finally understand that child is the product of the effort you made to understand the meaning when you were crossing the forest. All analyzed things became a new life, and even if you can’t go with the body of that child, you’ll know you will never leave your inner child alone.
So you opened your arms and hugged that little human being that is part of your life. You think with all things learned from this travel, you have a more convincing goal in mind, and as long as you have your child with you, you’ll enjoy everything you see as you make your route towards your objective. As they said, "your perception of live will never be the same."
You take the hand of your childish you and together walked away into the forest again, with the impulse that it was guiding you from the beginning, you get into the road again,viewing all wonderful things as you pass by, despite the time you'll take to get to the end of the forest. It was only the beginning of your new adventure....
“A new adventure awaits for you who took the path, the initiative to do something more than doing nothing. Because you know that a new world will emerge from the old one and changes the perspective of life. The things you have learned, and the things you’ll learn in a future, will trace your path in order to continue on the journey. New friends, new places to know, new adventures to take. And all this with the motivation with the ones who cares you, and with the conviction of you, in the graphical idea of the guardian who follows you at everyplace in the form of you as a child, and with the hope that there’s always someone who will guide us no matter what happens. There will be times the suffering returns, but we can handle the situation, because we know what to do now. There will be times everything seems hopeless, and may forget our goal, but with the motivation of the ones who cares about you, the conviction will be still at your side.”
“What it is the most important of them all, is to enjoy life at present tense, and live happy about it.”
