Care Full

Words are magic and we are conjurers.

What visits me today is the word caution; along with its twin; risk.

They are place holders for the concept of threat. 

I follow the path of threat its intended meaning; it serves most often as an adjective, as in, threat of what?

Loss of my health?

Physical harm?

Perhaps something more abstract being threatened; my comfort, my peace?

I reasoned, caution is based on attempts to avoid, (injury/loss) wrapped into a nice warming cloak of, 'unwanted condition.’ 

   When I had been given a box of crayons to color my world, I had been shaped and directed on their use and applications by the giver in order to navigate the world of my teachers.  It is then I begin to notice a subtle drift off course.  With all good intentions, they usher forward their pearls of life wisdom won by mistakes and success' in order that I too, could avoid pain and ultimately, suffering.  So then I am sent on their path to avoid their mistakes to reap their hopes.

Error.

The armor I am given is protection against the dragons of their passage.  Seduced into looking for those pitfalls they stumbled into, I will ultimately find them, then, refer to them as the consequences of my failure to be cautious about the risk.  We are not born to explore for the sake of arriving unscathed.  It is my perception, my attitude, I wish to explore as I labor to release the burdensome weight of others demands. Albeit it sturdy, shielding slows me down.  I am not ascribing to fear invoked caution, but rather towards a natural harmless state of being CARE FULL.  

George Bernard Shaw mentioned that reasonable people adapt to the world, that unreasonable people try to shape the world towards their view; therefore all changes to the world have been made by unreasonable people.  

Cute paradox, but I'd submit this in reflection.  To lead a quality life one must care. What is valued is where the authentic self resides.  Integrity is all there is of any one.  To violate its existence is to proclaim something is more interesting; neglecting personal essence is that burning abandonment so many are striving to overcome.