Guatemala Diaries Part-1

“The only way to really connect with someone is if you are willing to  connect to his/her dreams and reality” she said.

“But what about my own dreams and my reality”

“Why do you want to connect in the first place if you are so concerned about your own dreams and reality? ”

I was visiting Guatemala City for business.

The hotel lobby

Having taken a long transatlantic flight I was feeling jet-lagged so I went to the hotel lobby. I found her there. She was there for some conference on Central American economy.I asked her if she knows English, and there we started, from basic small talk to politics and economy to everything, taking us talking long in the central-american night.

“Have u read Carlos Casteneda? “. She asked out of nowhere. I think by that time she was fad up of my questions.

I said no I haven’t.

She said, I remind her of the character in Carlos Casteneda books, who was not able to believe the realities other then what he has been taught of over the years by the world around him. Anyways she said I should try reading it..

“But what is wrong with thinking about one’s own dreams and reality”? I asked again. I was still lost on that point.

“Nothing is wrong” she looked at me with a peculiar gaze and said “but then you should rather go to a toy shop or a pet shop, to connect with someone who can do what you want them to do”

I felt a bit defenseless.

She continued, ” You may find this ironic that such thoughts are coming from an economy expert. The whole world preaches of limited resources and economizing on those resources, to the extent that we even start economizing on our emotions and feelings as well. We have started seeing everything as our personal gains or loss, but it is very unnatural.
Every perfect natural system has an inherent quality and capacity to overflow with abundance, and it is that abundance which unites all natural things in an ecosystem. Its not just what an entity wants that makes it dependent on others in a system, its what an entity can give which connects it with others. The whole world tells us only one side of the story, of personal wants and needs, of storing and economizing of what we can have… paying no attention on what we have in abundance. You need to see the other side of the  reality as well”

I was trying to digest what she was trying to say. I asked, ” how do you define then a physical attraction. Is it not our want or our need, a pure inherent desire to get something?  

“Physical attraction is nothing but an outside force of nature to let u offload all that is abundant in you. If you have abundant life in you, that life will feel the outside attraction” she smiled and continued. ” Its all about what is your frame of reference shows you. Think about it this way, if you focus only about your short comings you will never be happy, because what is abundant in you will become heavier and heavier over time making you unhappy. If you focus instead,on what is abundant in you, you on the other hand will always feel happier and lighter. That is how a natural ecosystem works. Just see around, the river flowing with abundance, the trees producing oxygen in abundance, the animals having abundant food etc etc”

The next day I saw her in the hotel, delivering a speech on merits of free market economy. She winked at me, as if telling that she is trying to tell to the world what they want and like to hear and not what the truth is.

We met the following night and flew together with the moon once again.

To be continued…