23 confrontations

The first confrontation is with yourself.

The second confrontation is with the fact of yourself.

The third confrontation is with the idea of the fact of yourself.

The fourth confrontation is with this idea, and how you are now outside of yourself.

The fifth confrontation is with this self that is now outside of you.

The sixth confrontation is with the idea that the fact of yourself is now actually the self that is outside of you.

The seventh confrontation is with the truth of the idea that this self outside of you is telling you.

The eighth confrontation is with the fact of the truth that you are being told.

The ninth confrontation is with the you that is still in you, not the you outside you, telling you that you need to listen to the you outside you.

The tenth confrontation is with the fact that you are listening to the you outside you.

The eleventh confrontation is with the fact that you have heard from the you outside you.

The twelfth confrontation is with the idea that you have truly listened.

The thirteenth confrontation is with the you that was outside you that has now come back into you.

The fourteenth confrontation is with yourself again.

23 confrontations

The fifteenth confrontation is with the you that now has to act.

The sixteenth confrontation is with the idea of the fact that you now have to act.

The seventeenth confrontation is with the fact that you must act.

The eighteenth confrontation is with the inertia that prevents you from acting.

The nineteenth confrontation is with every single moment of your life before this moment that has meant that you have not acted until now; every moment you did not fight gravity harder, every moment you did not challenge time and its larceny, every moment you did not offer your heart when the world was crying out for it, every moment you shut your eyes in the belief that absolution is blind, that redemption is automatically conferred just because you have to suffer confrontations you might not win, every moment you turned away from the ease of truth instead towards the truth of ease.

The twentieth confrontation is with the fact that there is a moment when everything changes.

The twenty-first confrontation is with the fact that that moment is now.

The twenty-second confrontation will be your last confrontation with yourself.

The twenty-third confrontation is the one that counts.