Dragonfriends

So here is what I learned on the path to become a Dragonfriend. The path still continues and these are the words that I noted along the way.

This is my second dragon story. Read the first one about Dragonstrength.

The dragons are here to give us strength.

The dragons can bring harm and destruction, if we choose to fight them.

The dragons bring peace and happiness, if we turn them into our friends.

Those who turn the dragons into their friends are called the dragonfriends.

Dragonfriends can use the strength of the dragons to give strength to other people.

By doing this, we can develop dragonstrength.

With dragonstrength, we can take care of our lives and support others in taking care of theirs.

With dragonstrength, we can reshape the entire global system.

With dragonstrength, we can overcome whatever holds us down.

With dragonstrength, we can build a healthy world for all.

Dragonfriends can do this by joining up with other dragonfriends.

When dragonfriends give strength together, their dragonstrength multiplies.

It’s the giving that creates dragonstrength.

It’s giving together that creates multiplied dragonstrength.

Becoming a dragonfriend requires learning the language of the dragons.

If we face the dragons without knowing their language, all we see is anger.

In challenged moments, we might direct this anger against other people.

If we try to fight the dragons, we might direct this anger against ourselves.

Anger against ourselves can be highly destructive for us.

Anger against ourselves can make us highly destructive for others.

If we suppress the anger against ourselves, we might get sad and disappointed.

If we get too tired to fight, we might end up directing the anger towards others.

The real essence of the dragons is highly compressed love.

Dragonfire consists of love so compressed that it burns everything it touches.

In its compressed form, the love is undirected.

If our love is undirected, we might feel incapable of loving others and ourselves.

By directing our compressed love towards others and ourselves, we develop dragonstrength.

This is the secret of the dragonfriends.

Dragonfriends can decompress anger into love.

If we stop directing our decompressed love, it compresses back into anger.

If we direct our decompressed love towards others, it might be rejected.

If our love gets rejected, it can become a source of sadness.

If harm happens to people we love, it can become another source of sadness.

If we carry our sadness on our shoulders, it might drag us down.

If we give our sadness to the dragons, they transform it into love.

The more sadness we give to the dragons, the more love they generate within us.

The more love there is within us, the stronger it tends to get compressed.

The more our love becomes compressed, the more it turns into anger.

If we channel all love to others and ourselves, we increase our dragonstrength.

This is all we need to know to become dragonfriends.*

*Learning to become a dragonfriend can be a long and difficult journey. It’s not enough to understand these words. We need to learn the language of the dragons.

We cannot learn the language of the dragons by ourselves. If we face the dragons by ourselves, all we see is anger. We might react to this anger with fear, or sadness, or anger against ourselves. Or we might retract from the dragons and occupy ourselves with the search for peace and balance.

If we want to become dragonfriends, we need to find a dragonguide. Dragonguides can take many shapes and roles, but they need to be outside of ourselves. We can search for them, but often we will be found by them. This is how to start the journey to become a dragonfriend.

For lovers of rationality:

If you wish, you can see the dragons as metaphors for the old emotions deeply enshrined inside of us. And you can see the concepts of dragonstrength, dragonfriends, and dragonguides as metaphors for ways to handle these deep emotions.

This is my second dragon story. Read the first one about Dragonstrength. Or read the third one about Plasticstrength.

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