The Great Wall

Buidling a wall is truly a craft. And just like with everything else: Some of us are gifted and some of us not. Some of us have the ability to learn fast, while some of us learn slow and some of us have no ability at all.

We build walls in order to protect ourselves, or at least, nourish the thought that a wall could possibly protect us from intruders and vampires, uninvited guests and monsters, nightmares and daydreams...As a matter of fact in many of our 21st century, oh-so-modern, first and second world countries, some people build walls to keep love away. As the highest highs walk hand in hand with the lowest lows. For fear is stronger than belief and courage.

The same fence that shuts others out, shuts you in.

William Taylor Copeland

Walls are not the answer. They were never the answer between countries and never the answer between people. And yet, when Monsieur Pierrot gave me his answer by telling me that all we would need is a door in the wall - all I could think of was that it was hard enough to build one but to build a door in it, retroactively, sounded to me more like a lifetime challenge than a quick answer to an urgent question - Renovation over new developement.

It might appear easier to have a wall or none at all. Life as we know is about trying to keep the balance and I started thinking about mind numbing questions causing severe confusion in my head: How long did it take me as a mini-me to find balance in order to walk properly on my feet? And how long did I crawl? How many times did I fell, over and over again, before finding a balance for life? And now that I walk succesfully on my feet - more or less to be honest depending on external and internal circumstances - since more than 25 years, how come I don´t even think about keeping the balance anymore?

Yes, we do have answers to the question: What is the perfect Wall? I guess the question is just not the right one.The right one would be:

Who´s in, who´s out?