Bo: The Hallway of Innocence |
The firstborn. There aren’t many things that can compete with the first. Any first carries the mighty change it caused and has an everlasting effect on the person. Imagine a long and empty hallway. You walk along the beautifully minted walls as you start wondering what may be on the other side. But after a while of not finding any openings, you decide to run your foot through it and break it open. That initial view, the first peek to the other side, is when the innocence is shattered with something brand new and interesting.
We may come to find that what we uncovered on the other side was not worth the kick in the wall, but once a hole, always a hole. We may have to carve out the area in order to place a door so it looks good. Also, we will need to place a sign on the outside to tell you what lies within. That itch to find out more is the curiosity of innocence, but at the same time once we find out, that innocence is lost. As we grow older we have less and less innocence to lose, and may come to places where we are actually so uninterested to find out more since we may lose much more than we gain. We all want to believe that there is gold and riches behind that wall, but in many cases we are left losing more than just our innocence.
Some doors we crack open suck us into a whirlwind of newfound ideas and withhold us from finding the exit. It will actually try and spit us out in a place so far from our entrance that when we do find ourselves afterwards we will be wishing to have never opened that door.
So should we just stay stagnant all of our lives and not dig and discover? That seems to have been the answer before the Etz Hadaat was introduced to the big picture, but once the........