Cosima Underwater

Life is a string of knots, and freedom is unraveling the knot and moving on to the next.

We are all born into a subtle net of strings around us. I don’t think any of us is truly free. At times these strings become like a straight jacket from which we want to break free, but at other times we wrap ourselves in them for comfort,  security, and guidance. We need them. Without them our lives would be empty.

I look at other people’s life and don’t understand there motivations, their strings, don’t understand why they scramble like mad to achieve things that for me have no meaning, and I am sure the same happens the other way around.

I am bound by my fears and weaknesses and bound by love and happiness. The strings in my head and in my heart will not go away. I find it very hard to decide which strings to hold onto and which one to slash, but I have comfort in knowing that I am not the only one having that problem.

Welcome to the year of the tiger, a marvelous beast at the brink of extinction. It’s going to be a powerful year, and I – in the hidden, quiet corners of my mind – have decided to survive.