Ticks and Wounded Animals
Separate, Unique, and Whole - That is what we need to become. Everyone needs to become. For in this state, we do not look for another to define us. We do not look to others for validation. We look only within ourselves, and if we are smart, to our God.
By Separate, I mean independent of other’s. Unique means being fully ourselves. And whole means existing in a healthy non-addicted, sober, wholesome state.
When you are not in this state, you are probably some form of either a Tick, or a wounded animal.
The Tick looks for others to feed on. Others who can give them something they need. Something they don’t have. A sense of accomplishment, pride, stability, love, desire... feel free to expand. They are the woman who can’t live without a man. They are the man with the wandering eye. They are the cheaters, stealers, and white-liars. They are anyone who needs someone else to fulfill some self-centered yet justifiable desire.
The wounded Animal is a different, because they are wounded and cannot survive without their subjects. Approach them wrong, and you’ll have the scars to remember it. They have been injured or hurt, and they can’t run and walk and play they way others can. They may self medicate. They hobble around hiding their pain. And heaven help you if you corner them. They will take your arm off.
Alright. Check back. I have a lot more to say about this.
1 comments:
one thing i noticed...the tick sure sounds a lot like the world to me. 2 questions...1 - can we be a tick and be looking for validation from God and not those people? 2 - which do you see yourself as? i feel i'm a wounded animal that's been bound to a tick. i've been wounded, and if i am approached wrong, it may hurt. with the tick, i sin, maybe a fleshly sin, maybe a spiritual sin, but i sin nonetheless. it's not something that's ok, but i know i do it. but it's not to feed of another person. at least it's not the intent. with something like love, for example, it's more of a mosquito. the mosquito takes and replaces. gives and takes. now i realize no one likes a mosquito. but the analogy is more for the give and take, not the fact that it gives badly. taking that aside, it's about the give and take. it's as much wanting to give as it is wanting to get in return. so are we either one or the other? or is it possible to be a combination, or even something different?
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