Do you remember the ruby-colored dragon from the movie, Shrek?
Yes! The love sick dragon with flattering and fluttering eye lashes… How cute was that!
Let me quickly walk you through that part of the story…
Remember how Donkey and Shrek set out on a quest to bring Princess Fiona from a place far, far away where she has been locked and trapped for as long as she can remember?
Shrek and his side kick arrive at the sight, more like an abandoned tall tower. While Shrek goes looking for Fiona; Donkey ends up waking a sleeping dragon accidentally, which later turns into his romantic interest and a champion in the end of the movie for consuming Farquaad as in “swallowing him whole”, one of the best scenes in the movie, I believe!
Don’t we all have a dragon or dragons in our lives?
In fact, we see them every day in one form or the other…
The recent heated argument you had with a friend/spouse, and the roaring intimidating dragon inside your head kept adding fuel to the fire?
That was your ego dragon.
It wouldn’t let you say sorry. It would make it very hard for you to forget and forgive.
If I were to personify my imagination of him, it would look something like the indoor rock climbing walls. Just imagine if the small rocks on the wall weren’t climber-friendly and safe but were sharp and pointy…
An argument with a loved one is exactly like those sharp holds. The more you use them to go higher (in other words, try to win an argument) the more scrapes, blisters, gashes it leaves on your hands!
So this dragon I speak of looks like the wall I just described.
But there isn’t just one dragon, there are countless. Each with a unique face and personality.
Some dragons appear as a financial difficulty, often times they manifest through a challenging relationship and most often in the form of health related hardships.
But irrespective of their origin, all dragons have something in common.
They demand attention.
They’ll show up in most scary forms and shapes, and the more you try to ignore them, the angrier they’ll become.
Your weapon against them is one simple CHOICE.
How will you react? AND what’s your next thought going to be in any situation?
Retaliate? Resist? They can easily over power you!
Surrender? They can overtake in a heartbeat.
What can you do then?!
Understand them. Drop your defense. Listen intently.
Once they have your attention, they’ll be uncharacteristically polite and tamed.
We don’t always have to slay the dragon as they say…
Maybe it’s time we befriended them for who knows what they are trying to communicate is exactly what we need to learned at that point in time…
“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are just princesses only waiting to see, act, just once, with beauty. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.” – Rainer Maria Rilke (Letters to a Young Poet)
Author: aisha mohsin
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Author Bio: Aisha Mohsin is a Melbourne based blogger, a prolific reader, seeker of inspiration in the ordinary.
She writes to share lessons learned in life, and to reach out and help people live better & happier!
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