Carpenter Joe

I believe that in life people spend most of their lives either as a carpenter or as a demolisher. We may be teachers teaching at Southridge, doctors saving lives in a hospital or even a priest giving confession to a sinner. But our profession never ends at mere jobs, since birth we have been already working.

A little kid in a candy shop would be afraid of a looming sales lady looking only to make a sale. In the same sense would a teenage boy be reluctant to approach a cute girl in a party. Or would a 60 year old widow accept a new man in her life to take care of her.

These are the carpenters who spend their time building walls. It is not that hard, mix in a little gravel of shyness, quick drying bad-experiences cement and some good old water and huwala! You got yourself some rock hard cement which over time piles up to form walls, high and mighty walls of cement that block out the sun's warmth. These walls around you come at all directions and rarely are there cracks to be found between the cement blocks.

Demolishers on the other hand spend their time differently but are ultimately, a harder profession then the carpenters. 

A perfect example of a demolisher would be a best friend who would always be there for you would show you the world and slowly you trust more in him. He would show you the right way and veer you from straying afar. When all is wrong and nothing is right. When it seems like everyone has abandoned you, he would be there. He would listen when you can't hear yourself. He would care when you give up on yourself. He would save you when you yourself find life not worth saving. 

Demolishers are armed with their wrecking balls of friendship and sledge hammers of open-ness they heart to their jobs and would break down the surrounding walls built by carpenters. Some may stumble upon a wall and unknowingly free the carpenter behind the wall while some can not stand seeming the walls and would break it down. They would be the ones to show you what you are missing.

A lot of us can be both demolishers and carpenters. Both seeking to free yet hiding behind walls. Giving advice when you yourself do not listen. 

Majority of us do not know of these things and live lives building walls unaware of slowly separating ourselves from the rest of society. Though there is nothing wrong with this, so much more can come out if there were no walls blocking you from reaching your full saturation.

I am a carpenter. What are you?