Brother:
Can
you explain something to me?
Coach:
I’ll try. What is it?
Brother:
I read the meme.
Coach:
and?
Brother:
Well, it doesn’t apply to me.
Coach:
How so?
Brother:
I don’t need to travel. I already know myself. I would like to travel to meet
others in their environment.
Coach:
Okay. Have
you ever considered the inner traveling you undertook to get to know yourself
so well?
Internal Activities
Internal Activities
Brother:
Yes.
Lots of soul searching, meditation to clear the brain, talking with God,
applying ritual in everyday life and how to respond in social gatherings.
Coach:
And you didn't need to travel at all to do any
of this?
Brother:
Not
to any foreign country. I’ve been surrounded by people from many cultures and
with those cultures part of their countries comes to me.
Coach:
I understand.
Can we take this in a different direction?
Brother:
Sure.
Coach:
Was your internal world known to you before you spelunked its hidden realms?
Brother:
Yes,
and I’m now free.
Disconnect
Coach:
How was your internal world known to you
before you spelunked its hidden realms?
Brother:
I’m not connecting with your question. I
need another clue please.
Coach:
Sure. How did you come to know your internal world?
Brother:
What was my motivation?
Coach:
No. Did you have to explore your internal world in any way, or was it all
explored for you since the beginning of your life?
Brother:
I had to explore my internal self.
Coach:
Was your internal world known to you prior to that exploration?
Brother:
It wasn’t known to me until I left school and started in the work force.
Foreign
to You
Coach:
So, it was foreign to you before you explored?
Brother:
Yes
Coach:
So, when you traveled into that foreign land, did you find yourself?
Brother:
Yes. It took many years… wait… now I’m seeing where you are coming from.
Coach:
And?
Brother:
The foreign land was my inner world!
Coach:
Yes.
Brother:
And I had to travel within it to find myself.
Coach:
And?
Brother:
That’s the foreign land to which the meme referred.
Coach:
Yes!
Connection
Brother:
That land was indeed foreign!
Coach:
Agreed! Thanks for letting me tag along
my Brother.
Brother:
Thank you for helping.
Coach:
You’re most welcome.
Brother:
I loved that new word, “spelunked”.
Coach:
Thank you! I believe it's appropriate.
Brother:
Indeed!
Take
Aways
Coach:
So, I have a question for you?
Brother:
Share away!
Coach:
What are you getting out of the meme now?
Brother:
That to find yourself, you must travel within.
Coach:
And?
Brother:
That inner land is no less foreign than any external foreign land to which I may
sojourn.
Coach:
And?
Brother:
Finding my true self requires my traveling to that internal foreign land and exploring
it as any other foreign land I may encounter.
Coach:
Indeed!
Brother:
Well?
Coach:
Well what?
Brother:
AND!!! You forgot the “and?!”
Coach:
Oops! Sorry… And?
The
Work
Brother:
Neglecting this crucial Travel forever handicaps me with personal deficits that
shall burden me wherever I Travel until I know my true self.
Coach:
And?
Brother:
I’m now seeing how important the Apprentice Work is.
Coach:
How so?
Brother:
It required me to spelunk my internal world as a foreigner until I find my true
self.
Coach:
Prep work?
Brother:
Yes! Doing it prepares me for what is to
come.
Coach:
Indeed! And there is much Travel to
come.
Brother:
Indeed! For all Traveling Men.
