The fields of green

Picture this.. A person in the middle of a field surrounded by nothing but plains of green as far as the eye can see. The land is flat but there's nothing to see only the skies and the fields in which this person stands and the horizon, showing that there are no houses, no people, no life..nothing. So this person stands alone, but has no idea when or how they got there. They therefore don't know which way to go. There's nothing, just a field of green. This person doesn't know the way back to where they came from or the way forward to somewhere where they might have opportunities. They don't know if something else might exist. They don't even know how to stand still. Because this person has never stood still before.

What is someone to do when this happens? Feeling alone in the world but really not being alone. Feeling trapped but being free. Feeling frustrated but mistaking it for liberation. Feeling overwhelmed but being scared of the possibilities this situation they have found themselves in, might have brought upon them. There doesn't seem to be any help. There doesn't seem to be any way back. There's only fear of the unknown. It can seem uncertain and frightening. There's nothing to hold on to and there's no security. Is this needed to find the way out? Isn't it an adventure to find out where to go and how to get there and what got you there in the first place? Isn't that what everyone would dream of.. an adventure into the unknown?

The unknown doesn't give stability and isn't dependable. But whilst searching for the best way out of the surroundings, which are the green fields as far as the eye can see, can't this person find something that's far more fulfilling and far more invigorating than a path that has already been walked on by the previous lost person? By being creative and relying on their own intuition to get them on the path they need to be, isn't that more rewarding and a greater learning experience? There's nobody who has ever taken that route before and there's nobody who will ever take that route again. It's created and experienced only by this lost person and if some other lost soul were to take the same route they would experience it differently. So it would therefore still be a different path. Because every person interprets the world or their journey in a different manner.

As everyone has different views, opinions, backgrounds, relationships, hopes, dreams and desires. That's what makes each journey different and these are also what got that person to find themselves surrounded by green plains. Their upbringing, their behaviour, their experiences, their relationships and so much more led them to find themselves lost. And by being a lost soul they were forced to find themselves again. Finding the path back to where they came from or towards a different life, a life that won't lead them to find themselves lost again, will show them who they really are. By being lost, someone is also being found but just in a different physical and mental place.

Without this person being forced to see that they are lost, this person will never properly go through the process of seeing themselves as being found. Found by another part of themselves and found by people who have the answers to all the questions and to all the mysteries this person never thought they'd find the answers to. In this place where all the answers are and where all becomes clear is the place where this lost person is found. Their soul is no longer classed as being "missing" or but it's "found".

Finding the answers and being found by others will forever take away the fears this person felt when they stood in the green fields alone, with only the skies above and the horizon so clear that it were as if there wasn't anything else on this earth. Because managing to loose themselves like that, but still being able to find a way back, gave this person the knowledge they required to see that there is more to life that meets the eye, far more than the horizon, far more than the skies and are more than the fields of green. There is so much more but at that moment in time, this lost person only needed the reassurance of these fields and skies and horizon to see that all the effort they put into searching for their path and finding their way to where they needed and longed to be, was worth while. It showed them that the mystery of life can be experienced, embraced and appreciated. The mystery of life that can't be touched, heard or seen but that's there and to become aware of it by feeling and by finding that path to where this person needed to be, is nothing short of a miracle.

Embracing the miracle of being lost and then found again is to find a way to live again and still appreciate the fact that once upon a time an adventure or a journey was started in the middle of that green field and still remember how if felt to feel lost and to feel found and all that lay between. Using the power from wherever it was coming from, will always remain within this person. Because the green fields will remain, as will the skies, as will the horizon but they will be perceived differently because the journey that was undertaken lead to an experience and as everyone knows, experiences change people and it changes the way one stands in life. The way one will feels if they may find themselves standing alone surrounded by green again. Second time round it's different, there's no fear or loneliness but strength and willpower and reassurance that the fields offer adventures, that the skies offer clarity and that the horizon offers a new life..