Permission to Explore: The Boundaries We Encounter

This Follow Your Art Music Journey as I like to call it has been about, more than just music, boundaries as well. It’s come to my attention, entering and exiting various boundaries just how important they really are on this Journey. I mean, it’s safe to say I always knew they are important and how they are important and how important they are but something about this makes an appearance in almost every country I travel to and through. I’ll try and speak to this indirectly.

The boundaries exist only in the mind but are projected on the outside of one’s inner experience using the various walls, gates, and doors. That is if you want to enter someone’s room, you must have their permission. If you want to enter someone’s building, you must have their permission. If you want to enter someone’s country, you must have their permission. Vice versa as well. It is the case that to exit countries, largely, you also must have permission more so for international air travel, but I digress. If what you are examining are the various boundaries you must go through to get from point a to point b, there could be many or there could be one but all in all, they exist in this space between us.

I’m not merely speaking idly to the idea of boundaries. I am going somewhere with this although I may not know in fact where they destination is, some part of me does. The boundaries that I am going through on this journey I am practicing going through. No two boundaries are identical. You need practice to experience a process that can be experienced a multitude of ways as the ways have changed from space to space and from time to time. That is, “this” boundary may not be the same boundary as that boundary. And “this” boundary tomorrow may no longer be “this” boundary as the rules may have changed from yesterday to today with or without spacial changes.

You’re practicing change and response to unpredictability not knowing the person in front of you checking your information examining your face engaging with you. Beyond the scope of this interaction alone, you also practice engaging with the process of needing to know, or not, before if you need to do something before so that when you arrive you have everything you need to get to where you will have gone so long as everything goes right.

Different countries have different processes you must go through, some far easier than others such as the difference between a country requiring you to have checked online with a separate entity long before attempting an entrance face to face through the border and a country that requires little aside from the passport from the country you are in. I think people, which brings me to the bottom line I’m going for, work much in the same way. As above so below. Some will try and take you through rigorous vetting process and background checks while others are far less caring and far more relaxed in their approach trusting that their gut won’t lead them astray or not knowing their gut well enough and just not being a very smart person.

I think the flexibility with which you are operating requires that you know and understand and have had an advanced and expansive experience of a large majority of these approaches for entering new territory so that when the time comes, no matter what comes up, your journey won’t be stopped undesirably as you have prepared yourself for the one thing you can prepare yourself for … that you can be prepared only to be surprised and beyond that, you have experienced enough of the world to handle all the unpredictable that will inevitably rear its head in the face of whatever you decide to do and wherever you decide to go next.