Two years ago to this day, the one now called The Entity began a journey... Unlike so many journeys however, this journey was never meant to be to a specific place. Or maybe it was, and at the time he didn't realise it. It was a journey that would force him to confront some of his greatest fears, but also allow him to discover his greatest strengths. One not confined to a generic timeline, but rather spread out across past, present and future. It has been said that sometimes, in order for us to find who we really are, we must first take a step into the dark before we can see the light. Sometimes we have to get lost before we find ourselves.
This journey was the retelling of almost seven years of trials, both physical and mental. Moments on the moutaintop and moments from the deepest darkest pits. Highs, lows and everything in between. Most of all though, this was to be a story of how a young boy somehow managed to find a way to keep going, despite the raging storms around him and everything telling him to turn back, to give up and to lose hope. It was a story of the impenetrable defence he built around himself, and how that very defence - those very barriers - became his prison.
It was a story of isolation.
Beyond that though, it was also a story of self discovery, how he wasn't happy with the life he had built for himself within these walls, how being forced to conform outwardly to fit in had turned him into the very thing he hated, and how he wanted out, whatever the cost to himself.
It was a story of escape.
The trouble was, how do you break down an unbreakable wall? Conventional means had proven ineffective, so what was left? Well... the answer seemed obvious...
The Key.
The Key was the way out, The Key was the truth of what he had, and The Key was the only way for him to get his life back.
Finding the key proved to be the easy part, since by the time he realised he needed it he had already found it, the hard part for The Entity was finding the courage to use it in the lock, as he knew that the moment he did, everyone he ever met would know that that was what he had done. In a world where everyone was living within their own bubble, he would stand out, and he would not be able to hide it, like a city on a hill or a lamp on a stand in a dark room. He would be forever different, and more than that, he would be vulnerable, with the whole world against him...
So he accepted it and did it anyway, in the biggest way possible... Watched by 9,000 people...
This was the story of the exoskeleton.
It seems somewhat appropriate that Easter is tomorrow, since that's really where it all began, a story of death and rebirth that gave us the keys so that we can really live. Free of barriers and everything holding us back. We just need to find them and step out.
With that in mind. I end with a song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lky7U8ygU78 :
Run Wild - For King and Country:
Are the walls to lock you in or to keep others away?
And if the doors were to be opened would you leave or would you stay?
The comfort of your misery you cherish dearly
And you haven't started dreaming 'cause you're still fast asleep
But don't you wanna
Run wild. Live free. Love strong. You and me?
You're a lion full of power who forgot how to roar.
You're an eagle full of beauty but you can't seem to soar.
Will you return to the garden where you were first made whole?
Will you turn to the one who can liberate your soul?
Don't you wanna
Run wild. Live free. Love strong. You and me?
Run wild. Live free. Love strong?
To every soul locked in a cage
In the prison of your past mistakes
No there's no time left to waste
Yeah you can make your great escape
We're made to...
Run wild, run wild, run wild
We're made to...
Run wild, run wild, run wild
We're made to...
Run, Forrest, all depends what direction. Some people run from fear some from their own reflection. Some people run their mouth, some people run their house ruling with the heart of a tyrant. Some people run their block, bust shots with a 4-4-5, and that's the environment, how we were raised, living like lions but trapped in a cage, back to a mine gold day with the blood of a king but the heart of a slave, don't you wanna run...
Run wild. Live free. Love strong. You and me?
Run wild. Live free. Love strong?
To every soul locked in a cage
In the prison of your past mistakes
No there's no time left to waste
Yeah you can make your great escape
We're made to...
Run wild, run wild, run wild
We're made to...
Run wild, run wild, run wild
If your soul's locked in a cage, you can make a great escape
We're made to...
Run wild, live free, love strong, you and me...
