Do NOT open this door

Always thinking in visions and metaphors, I remembered a brilliant scene in one of my favourite movies,
“Young Frankenstein”, where Victor Frankenstein (played by Gene Wilder) is about to enter a room where the monster is being held, to convince him that he is loved as,
‘love is the only thing that can save him’.
Before entering, Victor tells his assistants:

“No matter what you hear in there,
no matter how cruelly I beg you
no matter how terribly I may scream,
do NOT open this door,
or you will undo everything I have worked for.”

He then enters the room which is locked behind him.
Upon seeing the monster get up and growl, he bangs on the door and screams:

“Let me out!
Let me out of here,
you get me the hell out of here!
What’s the matter with you people,
I was joking!
Don’t you know a joke when you hear one?”

A hilarious scene…and one that serves as a metaphor for life itself, really..
Especially in the times we are in..

Let’s assume we signed up for this before we came here in this realm.
From a higher perspective, the experience sounded like a good idea.
‘On the ground’ however, it’s much harder than we thought, with all the
physical and emotional challenges, pressure, fear, pain and confusion…
Banging on that virtual door, repeatedly and daily. Trying to run from the hideous monster, who might just be another part of our self.

Now, if we could only convince ourselves that we are loved, on the deepest levels and know it fully,
that it’s this that will ‘save’ us, in the end 🧡