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We are trapped in our lives and may have through the bars into the cage. Go back? Stay
been for a long time - not realized and outside? Discover the unknown?
unnoticed. We sit inside like in a cage, the
“cheese” is awfully close to us and we can see
the “outside” only through the bars. But we
do not even notice the trap, the cage, because
we are so used to it. Its protective bars even
give us security. And we do not realize that
this sense of security is just a trap itself.
Then we carefully nibble on the “cheese”.
Just enough to give us a little bit of
happiness. If we do not want much more,
everything seems fine. At least in the cage. It Step by step we dare to go further and
looks different outside. notice that something new is waiting for us
We know this. But what can we expect outside. First, we take cautious steps. Just
outside? We can see it through the bars. No not too far. And it pulls us back towards
limits, freedom, no familiar surroundings the trap like a magnet. But the longer we
and, no “cheese”. At least not visible at first manage to stay outside, the more we must
glance. From what should we live? What oppose this move back. The feeling of
nourishes us? Where are the usual limits freedom combined with sentimentality for
and restrictions? the past. But with each passing day, with
Can we survive there? Without “cheese”? each step further, the trap fades and loses its
Where should we turn? How far can we go attraction.
What happens when we no longer see the There are surprises in every direction we
way and know what to expect ...? go. Many good ones, sometimes negative
Despite an urge to explore you feel okay ones, but new ones. We can decide for
inside. We know what we have there. And ourselves where we want to turn and how
what we do not have. far we want to go.
It is never too late to open the door. Cheese There are no bars that limit us, only the
or not… bars that we set ourselves and we can
reinstall them every day until we no longer
The trap seen from the outside need them.
But how is it outside of the trap? Known In the beginning they are still helpful
unknown. because this is what we are used to, but
We saw it through the bars but did not over time everything becomes much more
experience it. And now we are outside. exciting without them. At some point we are
Intentionally or unintentionally. Suddenly, so brave that we throw the key to the trap
we are on the other side. How to find our away. Then we are free because there is no
way? turning back.
Where to turn to? Where are the usual And the most important. We find cheese
ways? What gives us the supposed security? all over our discoveries and we can take as
So where is the “cheese”? much of them as we want.
Sometimes the gaze longingly goes back Outside is our own life.
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