All for One and One for All

I'm finally breaking free.  I'm finally going to be me.  I feel like I'm pushing through a crust.  I feel like the exoskeleton that I've been wearing for so long is finally breaking away and slowly being discarded.  It's making cracking sounds as a new life form emerges (like a baby making its way down the birth canal, or the caterpillar exiting its cocoon) and entering the world for the very first time.  The exoskeleton that has protected the old life form is giving way, crumbling away, as its no longer of any use, no longer needed.  This all encompassing feeling is stirring up from the very depths of my being.  I am very much aware of it.  It is as if it is behaving of its own accord.  Like the wind continuing to playfully tousle your hair when you're trying to keep it all straight; walking face first into a spider's web; the soft summer rain splattering all over, moistening your upturned face as your mouth tries to catch each drop; watching a slow motion video of a fragrant, dark red rose as she  slowly reveals her true inner self, enigmatic and throaty, one petal at a time.  Sitting under a blanket of a trillion stars, keeping count of the ones that shoot across the sky.  The feeling is you've finally  arrived at predetermined destination and are now, for the first time in this incarnation, starting to feel alive.  Your perception has changed.  You're able to see the same old things through new eyes. I love animals, I love babies, toddlers, those whom we call Down Syndrone Children, those who are pure in heart, because these beings are closest to the Creator.  Their souls haven't been tainted yet.  They know no prejudice as they have not learned to be prejudiced; they have no hate as they have not been taught to hate; they know only the warmth of loving arms and a pat on the head.  They know no fear as they have not yet experienced fear.  I believe that we're just now beginning to catch on to the fact that there is a different way of living out our lives on this planet.  That we humans have within us the capability and capacity to make this place we call home (Earth) a better place for all.  As a species we are being awakened (are awakening) to a new understanding of who and why we are here.  This awakening is going to impact and encompass each and every one of us, whether we want it to or not.  It's coming irregardless of how much we cling to the old ways; it's coming irregardless of how much the old guard attempts to stifle and thwart it.  This new way that's coming is for the good of all not just a select few.  And seeing that each individual counts as one and that one turns into all, the all becomes the One.