Connections

We tend to connect with those that we need to work with in this lifetime. After that work is accomplished, we tend to let those connections lapse. What would happen if we never let go of those links? We'd be totally exhausted trying to keep up with them all!

Many of my connections are morphing right now. I'm down to just a handful of those that matter, which is good in some ways, not so good in other ways. The support of extra energy is necessary under circumstances like tests, surgeries, and trials. The need to expend extra energy to keep those links is what is at issue, though. If I'm not getting back what I put into it, it's probably not the right place for me.

There are connections that should be cut but will not go away. These are the ones we must look at most critically; Why must we cut them? What happens if we don't? Is there a reason that it won't go away? What if I miss that reason and cut it away, then lose an opportunity to manifest something really cool? What if I'm being drained by this connection and it's not healthy?

There are connections that leave before we are ready to give them up. These are the ones that we must examine our own reaction to. Why did she leave me? becomes a rhetorical question, because when we know ourselves, we know when we fuck up. If my heart is broken for someone who has left this plane of existence, then I can roll around in that grief and tell myself I'm having a REAL human experience, examine how it affects me, learn about my own behavior and therefore how to cope with the lost connection.

Connections must morph. Networks do that. What good are isolated networks that never exchange members? They would not gain ground in artifacts or philosophy. Why not participate in cross-network exchanges? One can hang out with bikers, geeks, truckers, dancers, pagans, redneck deer hunters, hippie glass blowers, kinksters, psychologists, vendors, volunteers, and professors. And one can learn from all of them. Everyone has something important to say; sometimes you just can't wait around to hear it.

But connections can be enduring as well. Connections are what we fall back on when we're stressed and alone, needing human comfort. Connections let us know that our sibling-in-arms is alive and kickin' ass on some distant battlefield. Connections are what psychics divine upon.

Connections are the ear on the other end of our internal dialogue.

And let's hope someone is listening.