Manipulation: Scripts & Loops

– “How people get used?”
– “They reveal their journey.”
– “Journey?”
– “From unrest to peace.”
– “Meaning?”
– “A hyena hunts a rabbit, yes?”
– “Sure.”
– “But a rabbit is holed up.”
– “Yes. So the hyena enters the burrow?”
– “It can’t. But it knows who can.”
– “Who?”
– “A python. It likes rabbits too.”
– “Oh.”
– “So the hyena tells the python.”
– “But why would it give away its meal?”
– “It doesn’t.”
– “It doesn’t?”
– “Rabbit is quicker than the python.”
– “So the rabbit escapes?”
– “And rushes to another hole.”
– “Where there are no pythons?”
– “But lots of carrots.”
– “And hyena knows about that?”
– “That’s why it hides behind a bush just at the opening of the burrow. Awaiting its meal.”
– “But how does hyena know rabbit would arrive there?”
– “For it’s what rabbits do. They don’t learn to fight the python. Instead, they rush to get back into a feel-good cocoon in the damp dark of soft earth. They don’t want to remember who came to hurt them. They want to forget. They want materialistic pleasures to hide that pain.”
– “The same is with people?”
– “Most of them. They escape from what scares them. They rush to what pacifies them. Different people play different preys. Accordingly, different predators await them. They know which fears and which incentives to dangle in front of which preys.”
– “What’s the solution?”
– “Awareness. The hyena knew what the rabbit would do. For it had observed other rabbits. Being a rabbit is a script. A rabbit follows an infinite loop of fearing the python and rushing to the carrots. Loops keep it predictable. People get used easily; for people shift into scripts quickly and ease into loops blindly. Point one is stop being predictable. Stop being known; reject loops. It’s natural that you’ll always have certain fears and certain interests. But know who you’re telling. Check who’s listening.”
– “That’s useful.”
– “Point two is growth. Growth is in walking out of scripts. And that means choosing to be new and work on yourself. Don’t run from your fear. Face it, fight it, fail from it, know it, fight it again, win. A rabbit can’t fight a python; but you can. For you’re human and being a mongoose is a choice; even a lion.”

© Counselor Apoorv Vikas
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