I have already mentioned in several posts that the word WALK is used as a metaphor and with different derivations and synonyms. One of them is LEAVE. Undoubtedly I mean in this Post to leave the place where we are from. It is a goodbye to that place (environment) but that will surely return after an indispensable and peremptory time, although it is not vital or mandatory. It has a fairly broad and deep significance, and likewise, of the results it generates in the formation of the personality of the individual who does so.
Going for a walk is not only a physical impulse to exercise the body and give movement to the mind, but it is closely related to something much deeper in the soul: going out to strengthen the individual personality. That going out for a walk is a metaphor of the unconscious that seeks the healthy awakening of the personality of the being.
I have also mentioned the following aphorism in one or two previous posts, I will use it in this as an epigraph that clearly defines a part of what I will expose regarding the need that human beings manifest to leave their place of origin (city, parental home , school) to be able to develop fully with its own personality: “The human body withers when it does not seek and does not find the way or the path to WALK, in the same way it happens to waters that have no exit and do not move, they transform into a swamp ” (Future Post NOT WALKING IS LIKE TURNING INTO A SWAMP). This thought is quite strong, but it is better to say it in this way than to consider that it is not very important for the development of the being in several aspects.
Using the word “walk” literally and a bit as an allegory, I would like to underline the importance for every human being to leave their place of origin, their “paternal” house, their neighborhood, their block, their town or city, where they have lived –all regularly- the first years of life. We say on some occasion and at some time in our childhood or adolescence: “I would never want to leave my friends”; however, the time always comes to leave them, to abandon them, due to various reasons. The truth is that some do not carry it out and stay the rest of their lives in the same town or in the same city, although not in the same neighborhood. We move house but we remain under the guardianship of our family group, and not only of our parents, but of the rest of the family group: grandparents and grandmothers, uncles and aunts, brothers and sisters, etc. We cannot abandon those brotherhoods. But neither do we want to abandon our playmates, our schoolmates, our teachers, themselves, anyone who has participated in the composition of our social environment. Leaving the place of origin in a timely manner – at a certain age – allows them to function better and to seek their own personality. This is not a mere recommendation on my part, but this is a natural human need to achieve his own personality and not be frustrated, in his immediate future, for not making that exit with opportunity. (Future Post THE WALK AND THE INSTINCTS). However, seeking to obtain a re-integration of the personality that is lost by living comfortably within the family, after a certain age: After having passed our youth, where the interference of the participation of the paternal house – the parents, the family and educators – who have avoided a healthy development of the personality, it is quite complicated from the psychic and behavioral point of view. Many times, experiences are generated in the paternal center, during childhood and adolescence, that if a stage of self-help is not initiated in a timely manner, they do not allow the construction of one’s own intellectual and character identity. This self-help is achieved when we move away from our place of origin, at an acceptable age.
Definitely this is an action that every human being –man and woman- must carry out by themselves, as their own decision and encouraged by their parents. Leaving the parental home at a certain age, in a timely manner, surely we will have positive but also negative experiences, which will reinforce our position of forgetfulness and denial of our own experiences. Something that could help us to better understand this is a question that we carry out in Future Post THE CONCEPT OF EXPERIENCE AND WALKING: “What correlation exists between these 2 scenarios, that of forgetting or denying the experience and the footprints that our feet have left in the journeys along different paths or with staying in the parental home?” This phrase should not be understood that we should abandon our loved ones. For obvious reasons, we must stay away from pathological needs and inclinations to travel (Future Post DROMOMANIA). Of course, this exit should not be carried out before a certain age when the being cannot support itself; nor after a certain age, where the personality already suffers distortions, preventing its autonomous development, and the unconscious work that must be carried out through this departure (evasion, absence), is lacerating for the person who cannot do it in a timely manner.
Adolescence presents in all human beings – men and women – certain drownings that force the individual to make various unconscious decisions; at this age, it is said: “the hormones become turbulent”, and the young person (man or woman) who experiences it does not know or understand why this happens to him. One of these agitated needs is precisely that he needs to leave his place of origin, whatever the definition of origin may be: school environment, friendly setting, home environment, social environment, work space, etc., the sum of some or all of these. The reality is that his temperament spurs him on to develop his own personality, and that is the path: a distance from that which gave him training and strength to develop from birth to this age – between 11 and 15. That separation which must be undertaken in this period will strengthen your personality development: by strengthening your personality you will find your destiny.
This impulse is an instinct of the human being, however there are other incitements that impel the individual to perform acts by which he tries to break the monotony (Future Post THE CORRECT MANAGEMENT OF THE FLOATING TIME IN THE DECISION TO WALK). For example, the IMPULSE TO TRAVEL or the ONLY WANTING TO CHANGE PLACES by going to another place, just by leaving that place where he has stayed for long hours or months; MODIFYING A STYLE OF ANY ACTIVITY, for example, the style that a painter uses in his works, there comes a moment that bothers him and he needs to create with another artistic style; CHANGE THE RHYTHM; MODIFY THE WORK ACTIVITIES, for example, if an individual is acting in a play, there comes a time when he gets bored and tired of performing the same performance and saying the same parliaments; BREAK THE BALANCE AT ANY TIME; ANNULL THE SIMETRY; THE ASSOCIATION IS INQUIRED, and so on. Most of these impulses or inclinations are sought and incorporated after long periods of being in a MONOTONY, situation very different from the process we have described, because, apart from being instinctive and congenital, this is a teleological need, recorded in the individual unconscious of the human being, in order to develop his personality, without which he cannot reach his goals in life, the meaning and destiny of his life, being that it has no direct relation with monotony.
“Strengthen your personality and you will find the way, when you find the way you will find your destination” [or DISCOVER AND WALK YOUR OWN PATH, IT WILL LEAD YOU TO FIND YOUR DESTINATION]. (Future Post THE HOMO SOCIABILI versus HOMO SOLITARIUS).
Let’s see what a character in one of my novels “Dialogues in a place of La Mancha” (*) says about this: “-The journey, symbolically means the intrinsic need to free oneself, like the search for an initiating experience, of change. It is a symbol of transcendence. Trying to break with the social status that surrounds you: friends, colleagues, family, work, studies, etc. Journeys on pilgrimage or in solitude. It is a ‘going out’ with the desire to take the first steps in life. Searching to face new experiences and discoveries, liberation, renunciation, atonement. It is generated by a natural state of discontent with oneself and with the environment around us. Search for change, search for knowledge of the nature of life and death; to know what to do with one’s existence. Depending on the individual, it can be a journey around the world, leaving one’s village or simply moving house. To transcend internally towards a new way of living and dying“.
This simply means starting a life for yourself, no matter if you are still financially dependent on your parents. What you should not allow yourself to do is to depend on them completely.
To paraphrase Lincoln, with respect to our topic, we would say: We can depend on the economic, we can depend for some time, but what we can’t afford is to depend on them in every way, all the time.
So: let’s walk!, because every walk we take can metaphorically and symbolically induce us to leave that “place” that our instinct points out to us.
(*) Loya Lopátegui, Carlos, Dialogues in a place of La Mancha, EMULISA, Mexico, 2019: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CJ3BW1T1.
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