Meet Gulliveretta

Meet Gulliveretta. She’s big. Much bigger than almost everything around her. Because she’s so very, very big and so very, very strong, she thinks she must move mountains to get where she wants to go.

Gulliveretta does this for a while, leveling the landscape. It’s time-consuming, upsetting, and messy, dirty work. It makes her miserable.

She stops moving mountains.

Yet Gulliveretta will stand at the level crossing of a model train set and wait for the oncoming train to pass.

As big as she is, she’s afraid to step over the railway line until the train that is as small as it is has slithered by on matchstick-thin tracks. She believes her life and limbs are in danger if she crosses the line.

Gulliveretta is plagued by thinking that makes her afraid to move. If she does move, she thinks she must move mountains, and she doesn’t do that anymore.

But, when she walks where there are no mountains, she comes to a standstill until a phantom obstacle that is nothing but a ghost from her past, has passed.

Gulliveretta hasn’t realized she needn’t move anything that can be stepped over or sidestepped; which is almost everything around her, including the mountains.

If only she saw the world around her as it really is – and not through a lens that makes everything look monstrous and frightening, a threat – she’d be well on her way.

Maybe she needs somebody who sees the world differently, somebody with fresh eyes, to show her the true nature of things, their true size?

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Gulliveretta reminds me to keep challenges in perspective, to see the true scale of things. When I struggle to do that (and I do struggle) she reminds me that I can reach out to the right people for help, that sometimes I need to see my life or predicament through the objective eyes of another.

If I think along the lines of now, now, let’s not make a mountain out of a molehill, or there must be an easier way, I’m inclined to look for solutions sooner, step out of my comfort zone, and worry less…

…most of the time.

Toodle-oo, I love you (and Gulliveretta).

xxx❤TeaShell

Updated version published in October 2023.

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All the characters, people, and scenarios in this post are ficticious and serve to enhance understanding and comprehension in a creative manner.