Creators of realities
About a week ago, a sound started out of the blue: “pew… pew… pew..”. Continuously. I didn’t mind it, as I remembered it from recent years. I was sure it was a night bird, like an owl.
A few nights after it started, my husband asked me about it, but he concluded that it is an electronic device of some sort, as it is highly repetitive, monotonous and continuous; it was repeating every 5 seconds precisely, with no tonality change.
I have started taking his theory seriously, as it made a lot more sense than the bird.
When I was thinking that it was a bird, I did not mind the sound. On the contrary, I found it very soothing. Once I changed my mind to believe that it was an electronic device, I went mad: checked for a few nights in a row for the starting time of the sound (the same: 21:12); counted the seconds between sounds (the same: 5 seconds); closed all the windows before going to sleep because I could not stand the “mechanical sound” – I was considering it alienating, like the chinese drop. I started to be extremely pissed at the people that installed such a device, not realizing its implications on the neighbors. I was even thinking of calling the police if I didn’t manage to reach an agreement with the person that installed it. I searched online for possible sources of the sound and the most plausible was a bird deterrent, as we have a lot of pigeons in the area.
As it was too much, after a few “horrible” nights, I went to the neighboring building, to find out the source of this sound and to put a stop to it. (Funny, looking back at the whole situation :)))
I found a person that had the same issue as I did, so together we went into this quest. A few hours later we found out, from a neighbor that went on top of the building, that actually there was an owl in the nearby tree and the sound is its mating ritual that happens in May: https://youtube.com/shorts/Stt_BnVygDE?is=bVgYczd4flngc4LS
My newly built world just got crushed. All sorts of feelings poured in: shame, guilt, blame, embarrassment, insecurity, self-doubt, resentment…
Then the night came, the owl started his song, and I was super happy to hear it! Rain came, the song stopped. Rain stopped, the song started again – the “supreme” evidence that was coming from a living being and not from a device.
I fell asleep feeling grateful for having his song accompany me and feeling ashamed for all the negativity and anger that I have manifested in the world while I thought it was something else.
I have shared this experience as I am sure all of us have gone through situations where they thought one way, only to discover later on that it was completely different. And the way we position ourselves towards a situation creates our reality. What is reality, if not the feelings that get created inside of us?
The exact same situation – nothing changed in the outside “reality” – but, according to how I read it, everything changes inside of me.
Retrieve in your memory a situation where you felt hurt and look at it through the eyes of today; observe it from a different perspective. If the feeling you NOW have related to that situation changes, so does the situation, even if it took plave in the past. Imagine how much burden we can lift from our shoulders and the shoulders of others, just by changing the perspective. We would build a completely different world. Actually… we are building it as we “speak”. 🙂
We are creators of realities.
