The Attraction We Feel
Some things, people, and opportunities call to us because they carry that familiar sweetness that is so irresistible.
Like bees, we fly to them instantly, without even looking to see if there’s any danger. If there’s a spider’s web hidden somewhere, waiting for us to get stuck in it and quickly die. No, there’s none of that, for the sweetness hallucinates many.
The attraction is so strong that we seem bewitched, and some are very happy to find themselves under that spell. I’d dare say that many don’t care about the consequences. Not as long as they get a chance of feeling united or reunited with that thing, that individual, or that experience that will produce such a mind-blowing reaction in them.
And so they go, leaving anything that resembles common sense somewhere behind.
Then there’s another category. And that category is made of the new—the never-heard of, the mysterious, the challenging, and yet so attractive feeling towards something or someone. You feel as if there’s a string that pulls you so hard that you’re unable to resist the temptation.
You want to look, to see, to taste and feel. You want your hands, your skin to touch it. Maybe it’s even more irresistible than the familiar sweetness because of its novelty because it feels like uncharted territory, and going there might be so exhilarating that you could burst out into flames because of the excitement.
How fascinating.
And then, I can’t help but talk about this category, too. These are the things, people, and experiences that call to you but in a different way. They ignite such a different reaction, which often feels like total resistance, contempt, fear, or even disgust.
But despite all that, or instead buried underneath all that, there’s this magnetizing force that pulls you out of your reality and life plan (that you seem so sure it’ll happen) and almost throws you in the ring, where usually one lands unaware of what is happening and with a very bruised ego (and maybe some parts of the body too).
Yes, this might be the category where many of us will find ourselves throughout our lives.
Here, the rules are very different, especially when you compare them with those from the other 2 categories.
At first, it may seem as if there are no rules, and you have to guess and rely on parts of yourself that are rather unexplored or, to put it bluntly, stupid. However, you’ll find they’re not. They just run so deeply, and you haven’t even touched the surface.
For a while, you’ll spend your time discovering those parts of yourself, diving deeper and deeper into each layer. This will be painful, mostly because it’s so unfamiliar. There’s no sweetness here (at first) but only raw, primal stuff that looks as if it belongs to a different era.
That’s okay. You’ll learn. It might not be a pleasant process, but it’ll sure feel as if you’re working on a divinely sent task. Often, you won’t see the light of day. You’ll feel like a miner, working for hours and hours in the dark, covered in dirt, sometimes with no air to breathe, no water, and no human contact.
It might be the hardest work you’ll have to do. But just you wait until you find that hidden piece of gold, then diamond then other thousand pieces of rubbies that were hidden. When that happens, you’ll forget it all.
The pain, the struggle, the tears you cried for years, the moments of despair when you just wanted to put an end to it. All of that will be gone because you found it.
