Walls

What is the purpose of a wall? It is to keep someone/something out of your side or your property. In history there have been a couple major walls which were built, east/west Berlin, China/Mongolia, there was also this iron curtains wall between communists and capitalists… either way whenever one side felt threatened they would build up a wall in order to safe guard their thoughts, way of life, people…etc. Looking back at history we see that those who ended up building the walls often seem to marginalized more so than those who just woke up with a wall built.

Why is that the case? Was it that the other side was just better able to grow and be dominant and progress or was there something about putting up that wall and sticking to your beliefs that maybe slowed one’s progress? I’m sure there are many historians and people who have studied politics who have a theory on this, in some sense I’ve always thought it was the second. Over the past couple of days I’ve begun to hope that its not really the case, and that its just a coincidence about the walls and the overall growth and accomplishments of both sides.

I guess that I find myself putting up walls in order to assure that I only keep in people and things, which advance me towards my goals. It’s a common thing I assume most people do. Its been particular difficult because I know there is someone who I should be keeping out but who my heart wants in. I feel as though my mind has built up these walls (with good reason), but that my heart is trying desperately to tear them down before it’s too late. I want to believe that even if I do end up putting the wall that it will be the right decision and that it will help me move forward. I don’t want my progress to be slowed because I put it up, but at the same time I want to protect myself from the “evils” of the other side.

I wonder if all the leader who chose to build the walls which kept their people from growing, if give the change they would have not built it. If they would have thought it was better to just move forward.