On the danger of safety

People often coagulate for emotional and idealogical safety. This is a good idea to a point. If we stay in these groups for too long, our common held belief starts to strangulate those in the group. We often need a trickster to come along with a hammer and carve out some new doorways.



Today I have been shunned by a particular family because my way of operating threatens the safety of this tight family unit. They make jeering remarks and try to fit me into their very specific mold. Being trickster I'm able to circumvent this and play their tricks backwards. Then they ignore me, which I get a kick out of. The mother was fiercely debating the son on preparation of leftovers. They were trying to come up with the best way to prepare the cold turkey because we don't have a microwave. I took a plate of cold turkey, potatoes and cranberries and ate them upside down on a footstool. The mother asked me why I was doing this and then asked "Is there any other value besides seeing the world in another perspective?"

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Sounds like you don't value seeing things differently than you do.

If we do not have flexibility of mind, there is no flexibility of lifestyle; if you are a proponent of rigidity then you are a disciple of death and you'll still bend, but at a single point with a violent cracking sound.

“All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.”
- Bruce Lee