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Walking along a street in a city, I saw a house. It was no different from other houses, but something about it attracted me. I decided to stop by.
Having crossed the threshold, I found myself in a large and bright room. There was a table by the window, covered with a burgundy tablecloth, and on it was an hourglass. I began to examine them and realized that I could not see how much sand was still left on top.
After trying in vain to see anything, I turned my gaze to the window and froze. I caught my breath. An eye looked out of the window. It was in size for the entire window opening. Seeing how the eye looked at the clock, I jumped out into the street in horror.
Having regained my breath, I decided to look around the corner of the house, from where someone big with such a huge eye could look. There was no one there. And the window itself was ordinary. It was difficult to see what was inside the room.
Curiosity overwhelmed me. Gaining strength and courage, I once again went inside. Everything remained in place, the eye looked at the clock.
Remaining near the door in order to have time to escape, I asked:
- Is there anyone in the room? - not hearing an answer, I repeated. - Is there anyone?
“Yes,” I heard a voice coming from the side of the window.
- Who is? I asked.
- You are! - answered the voice.
- Yes, I am! - I answered with irritation in my voice. - And who are you? Who is speaking?
“You say,” the voice replied calmly.
I'm confused. How can I talk to myself and not notice it? Since the voice was coming from the window, I looked at the eye and decided to ask:
- And who are you? Are you talking to me?
The eye looked away from the clock, looked at me and answered:
- I am you. I am talking to you, or you can put it this way: you are talking to yourself.
Thinking that I had lost my mind, I gave in with my whole body towards the door and already reached for the handle, but still decided to ask one more question:
- How can this be? - I asked my last question, but then I could not stop. - And what is this place? What kind of watch? And if I am the eye, then why am I looking at the clock? BUT?
- That's how it can be. Are you not talking to yourself? - there was irritation in the voice. “You just haven't spoken to me for a long time. Didn't ask: how are you? How much time do you have to live? This is the room with your inner life clock. And you follow, at least try to control, learn at least something, but it's difficult. Everything is blurry. You noticed it yourself, becoming me for a while. But you keep peering. You don’t even notice how you spend your strength to see inaccessible to your eyes.
- So, wait, I’m confused, - I interrupted the voice, - So, it turns out the following: I do not notice my attempts to trace and guess how long I will live?
“Exactly,” the voice confirmed, “and you are also wasting your energy on it, which you could direct to something else. Of course, you can speed up time, or you can slow down, but it will end when necessary. You may not know about it, no matter how hard I watch the clock.
“Okay,” I said thoughtfully, “then it’s pointless. Where would you turn your gaze if you don't look out the window and watch the clock?
- When you ask me this question, you ask yourself. So can you answer it yourself?
- I will fix my gaze on what I missed, trying to see the remaining time, - I did not have time to say, as the eye in the window disappeared. Looking around, I felt that what attracted me was over. I went outside.
So, walking along the streets of a city I didn’t know, I got to know myself. One who tried to keep track of the time I still had.
While in the city, I began to get to know the inhabitants. I found out who they are and where they came from, what they do and what they keep in their homes. Over time, I began to guess who was the architect of this beautiful city …
From SW. gestalt therapist Dmitry Lenngren
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