A LETTER BURNT IN THE FIRE

When they told me that I would become president of the entire country, I couldn’t believe it. At that time, I was a young boy. I had no interest in politics. Neither I imagined myself as a leader of a militia. But to be honest, when those three men showed up at my place wearing such unusual clothes and knowing everything about me, there was a part of me that knew that what they were saying was Truth. The smallest one was clear about the need for my service and my Good Will. They were clever. But they were even more than clever. I felt as if they were (even) more than human.

Today, with so much accomplished, I look backward and wonder if I would have gone through all the events of my life if I had known what they were truly about in advance. I don’t think so. Not knowing is what always kept me moving forward. 

Today, I can feel my physical body will stop soon, and all I can ask myself is: who am I? Who am I truly? Am I just a man? Am I a former president, a political party founder, a lawyer, a father, a bother, a son? Am I just that? 

I can’t convince myself that I am just a man. 

This letter will burn in the fire soon. And it will stop being a letter. Just like my body will stop any time soon being myself. But I know this message is being somewhere. And if I am more than just this man who writes, this message will come back to me somehow. It will remind me how to remember our powerful capacity to transform. 

To the part of me who might read this someday, what I learned in this life is that:
Courage is about being honest with oneself. And that it takes time. It takes practice.
Our most giant potential hides behind our own mistakes. But it takes pure Good Will and humility to surrender to their teachings.
Communication is the Mother of all blessings.
Order is needed for things to manifest, and there is a superior order which synchronically invites us to align. It is our purpose to look and recognize it. Once you realize it, you cannot look backward. Every time you try to ignore it, the events in your life remind you there is a higher force you cannot fool.
So I surrender to it and let my words transform what today I cannot see.

Andrew Jackson
May 21st. 1845