Saturday 1/25/25
"There is a person. One. It does not matter if the person is a man or a woman because nearly everyone is this person so imagine them being who you please.
"In front of the person are five blocks. That they are like toy blocks does not make them toys. These blocks represent what the person must do. What the person feels they have to do. The perceived weight upon their shoulders. What they have determined to be their burdens on that day and for that period.
"The color of the blocks doesn’t matter. Nor is the size of the blocks a factor. Whether the blocks are new or old. If the blocks are made of wood, plastic, or metal. If the blocks are solid or hollow.
"The person will think, and they will feel, that they can’t handle more than these five blocks. That they could not take on additional blocks. They will say that they are maxed out on what they can offer, say, or respond to, because of their five blocks.
"Other people will need that person. For help. Counsel. Support. For tasks big or small. To listen. To answer. To come over. To become more alive. More human. To be helped through the process of death. To find a way to keep going.
"But the person who could contribute in these areas has their five blocks with which to contend. The infernal blocks. And the five blocks make it so that nothing else can be taken on.
"This is what the person has come to believe. A belief is something that is made. It doesn’t just happen. And they have created the belief.
"Then, of a sudden, there are ten blocks. These may be more of the same kind of blocks that had already been in place. Or some of the same kind along with some of a new type. Types. Or all the blocks may be an all-new type. Various new types. But there are ten blocks now.
"The person who was maxed out on the five blocks will in turn be maxed out on the ten. They’ll do what they do, as they were. The muddling won't cease. The pace will be another version of what it was. A muddle-scurry, which allows the person to believe they are going as quickly as they can but which ultimately keeps them from advancing too far and too well so that whatever they are doing takes the maximum of amount of time with what they consider the maximum of effort. Circles instead of straight lines.
"They will think as they thought before. And keep their complaints consistent. They will feel as they felt before. They will make themselves believe what they did when there were five blocks, which was half the number of blocks as this number of blocks, and yet, amazingly—or perhaps not so amazingly—everything proceeds as everything did with the earlier total of blocks. They say water finds its own level; people find their own level in regard to their blocks."
