Why am I a Fool?

By Debbie Boen | February 12, 2007 |

Like the tarot card “fool” from Medieval times, being the fool is the first action before all others. One can not be the King or Queen without first being the fool. The fool is the first step to learning, taking on, and beginning something new. How does one feel when taking a first step? Foolish.

The tarot card shows the fool in bright colors taking a step over a cliff. A dog is a companion. The fool has a weird sort of faith and trust (like the dog) in the universe. What the fool doesn’t have, symbolic in the vitality of bright colors, is fear. While the fool learns and grows in taking risks, others point at and mock the fool while staying in their comfort zones of fear. Critics badger the fool, when inside they wish to be the King (be successful, have a following) but cannot bear to be the fool.

• The fool in me gets me to raise my hand in a classroom, while the room bears down on me to be quiet, fit in, and pretend that I know what I don’t.
• The fool in me is the part that wins out when I go to a new town, a new country.
• Fools try new and different foods.
• The fool lets me go where I’m not the majority in: language, culture, color.
• The fool is the part of me that urges me to step over the comfort line. It urges me to use my voice when no one else does.
• The fool in me picks up the paint brush or designs a 3D sculpture. No art, no imagination would exist without the fool.
• The fool dares to dream and then make that dream a reality.
• The fool gets on the stage.
• The fool writes; every word chosen with integrity comes from the fool’s mouth.
• The fool makes mistakes, the greatest learning tool there is.
• THE FOOL DARES TO SPEAK AGAINST THE MOB MENTALITY.

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