This essay,
Razor Thin Line,
was written at the same time as
Making It.
It's a razor thin line.
On that side of the line is you miss me, you want to be
near me, you want to be in my presence, you want to talk with me, you
want to lie with me, and you want to hold me. On that side of the line
everything pertains to you being around me. On that side of the line
it's all about you being around my physical presence.
On this side of the line is our already
relationship. On this side of the line is our whole, complete, perfect,
could not possibly be closer than it already is, the very closest, most
intimate
two human beings
can be with each other relationship.
When you swing to that side of the line, you're frustrated
by being apart from me, by being away from me. You get sad when you're
confronted by the finiteness of our time on this
Earth
- there's not a lot of time for you to be near me. You
want to be here with me. You want to be around me forever.
When you swing to this side of the line, you don't need to
embellish our relationship. It doesn't want any addition, it doesn't
need to be altered or changed one iota. On this side of the line our
relationship is full, it's perfect, in fact it's a perfect
privilege.
When you're on this side of the line, it's clear to me you've
distinguished relationship from physical proximity.
When you're on this side of the line with me, I know you get we have
relationship even if we don't always have physical proximity.
Try this on for size with me:
In this distinction you can choose to have relationship or
physical proximity or both. Which do you choose? Now, what
if in this distinction you can choose to have either
relationship or physical proximity but not
both? Which do you choose now? Now, what if in this
distinction you can choose to have relationship but not
physical proximity. Which do you choose now?
When you're on this side of the line, the relationship we have is the
perfect
privilege,
it's the supreme gift. You can't explain it. It just is. We're
surrounded by it. We're surrendered
to it, and thank
God
we are.
Our lives are always lived from who we are, always lived
with who we are. We'll never live any other way. This
is what winning in life is. Winning in life
is when we live this way.
We're playing from win when we live this way. And yes, I
do get you'd love to share the details of you winning in life with me,
although hankering to share details with me, yearning to tell me the
story of everything good that's happening for
you in this space, may also be on that side of the line. I
know who you are. I know you're in ecstasy because of me. I know your
life works because of me. I know you're winning in life because of me.