The one who wants to kill you craves your very being.
It doesn't matter if he (she, they) does it symbolically or literally.
His words do not matter either, even when they sound arrogant, self-sufficient, and powerful. That is how he fools himself.
If you truly meant nothing to him, he would not even notice you. But instead, a Great Hunt is organized—flags, ambushes, guns, hounds, rangers.
He is in a relationship with you, even if he refuses to admit it.
You are not an obstacle, an offender, or a competitor. If you were, a harsh shout would have been enough—or at most, a trip.
But no. He feels that he must kill you. As long as you are alive, you possess what he desires with his whole soul but, alas, cannot have.
Like a blood-smeared savage cannibal, he secretly believes that frying and eating your flesh will steal all your Power.
Mana. Orenda. Axé. Väki. Qi. Baraka. Rlung. Pneuma. Ruach. Shakti.
Hamr. Furor. Egungun. Ba. Geis. Skinwalker. Nkisi. Ferg. Amok. Chindi.
The killer doesn't grasp the main thing — He. Does. Everything. Backwards.
He craves the refraction of God's spark in you. He envies your Authenticity to death. Your uniqueness kills him.
Deep down, in the dark, at the bottom of his soul's ocean, lies a skeleton. That being was the same kind as you. That's why he can't bear you. You are living reminder of why he's already dead.
The secret is this: the only way to revive a murdered part of yourself is to enter into dialogue with that Other who embodies it in this world.
For the ego, this turnaround is almost impossible. A dead loop. A paradox.
"Almost"—That's. Man's. Freedom. To. Make. A. Step. On. Faith.
Sincerely yours,
-Alexander
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