The One: A Small Book with a Big Idea

By Elie Magloire

The thing that links us together as a human race may not be God. It may just be that we were all children once. We all know what it was like to make up the monsters in the closet or under the bed and realize we feel alone in a scary world. We all know we were scared once and didnt know how to tell anybody. So we made something up. Maybe thats all I see when I see people shouting. They are scared, saying there are all kinds of monsters around the corner and trying to convince you its real when they really mean, Im scared over here. This is where it hurts. And if it is just that, that we were all scared children once, and we seem to still be doing it, for me it begs the question, did we ever stop creating the monsters in the closet?

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse UK
• Release date: May 19, 2016
• ISBN: 9781524630676

Book preview

So much is possible when we just take a look.

In this book I will cover many things, everything in some ways but mostly just my thoughts about subjects, they come and go, but importantly they are just thoughts, they are not written in stone and if they register with someone, they should be talked about.

That’s what I’m hoping for.

Conversation. Communion. Communication.

(I don’t know about communism, but we might take a looksy!)

We learn through our interaction with this world. We feel it! And at the moment we are too busy barking at each other to hear anything.

In those awkward discussions you get to hear how people really FEEL.

There are so many answers that are so obvious when you see everyone’s point of view, that’s where I found answers to what for me were some very interesting questions!

That little jump of fear that we all get from time to time, that back-footedness isn’t so that we run and hide anymore, we don’t need to ignore the problem or make excuses.

We don’t need to do anything!

When you face a problem that is not yours,

do nothing and everything will be open to you.

(When you get past your fight or flight reaction you realise you have so many more options).

That little jump, is so that we are ready for an opportunity!

WHY DO WE NEVER LOOK AT THE THING

WE SAY WE HATE SO MUCH?

Could you really hate something so much you can’t even look at it?

I know on rare occasion my son says something so bad I can’t even look at him.

(He’s working on the word poo at the moment! The occasional poo shout I can handle, but when he starts wanting to describe it in detail at the dinner table, I start!)

It only take a few minutes before I realise the reason I can’t look at him is because I can’t handle the situation, my emotions are all over the place, and my food now does not look so appetizing.

I have now not only put myself off my food, I have missed the fact that my son needed me to play with him and so was acting out a bit!

If I did not get tense I would have realized there was room for a special moment in our relationship.

When we are forced to look, are confronted or are surprised by something, we put on a brave face and…. It’s ALMOST, never as bad as we thought.

It is always the thought of something that, is the worst part, the nervous part and that bit…… is all in your mind!

It is just that voice that we need to shut up!

We kick ourselves for being silly, but why do we never look at some of our biggest problems?

Even when we know every experience will tell us that it is NEVER that bad.

Why do we say THOSE ‘Muslims’ or ‘communists’ or ‘you men’, ‘those women’ without even asking THEM what that means?

We make most of it up, and the bits we make up are always ridiculous.

Why do we scare ourselves, separate yourself?

Why do we point a finger at the exact place that makes certain we just keep fighting.

What are we afraid to see?

And when we realise we are wrong. That split second we pretend we didn’t see. When we feel so bad our emotions get caught up, do we man-up, say sorry and get to the business of making it right?

Or do we let our sadness get the better of us and hold it in until we snap?

In this book I hope to confront some of these monsters, and pinpoint where they come from.

The things we think we are protecting ourselves from, and begin openly asking the questions of ourselves that will put us more in line with this new way we are living

And we are not as bad as you might think!

Of course i’m not the first to ask any of these questions, but I can’t find anyone that speaks in a language that I truly understand.

We are after all talking about the most fundamental things, the simplest of ideas, we could discuss most of this with a child and the child would leave us with even more perplexing questions than when we started! After all the one question that kids ask is the one we have no real answer to, Why?.

We know less than children in that way.

Most research I have done still left me with a feeling that the writer was eventually glorifying themselves, using big words that had already lost their meaning, it goes with the territory I guess, they don’t call them the great thinkers for nothing!

Who knows, that may be the reception of this book. It IS my indulgence. I will try to stay objective.

We know there are millions of lost souls in our prisons, but they came out of someone’s womb, didn’t they?

Somewhere in between many, many things must have gone horribly wrong or….

Are they just born animals?

Is there really nothing we can do?

This book won’t change the world, but it will change your view of the world, your understanding of it, and just how much our eyes see everything upside down!

This book MAY upset a lot of people, but of those people I ask to also take a look. We need something to bring us together. I consider you all brothers and sisters, it takes more than a village to raise a child and I have honourable intentions, to look at all available information without taking sides, and hope we can finally admit we are ALL human.

To do that we all have stuff we need to open up about, before it explodes.

Not being able to open up and

let the true you out is killing women.

I know because it’s what kills men.

This book may just be a rehash of eastern philosophies or all of philosophy, I wouldn’t know, I am a master only of my actions, I see only my view of things, that is my journey, to try to understand a piece of 7.3 billion views,

That is what my heart follows, and this is my experience of it.

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Everything that has ever happened in the history of the world. Why did WE take it the way we did?

I mean sure bad things happened and good of course, but some atrocities were just accepted and we are just learning about new horrors every day. Some we respond to and some we don’t. Same with all the good stuff, we don’t pay attention when things are too easy, too good. We stop appreciating what we have, start looking around for what we don’t have.

All the hard work to get there and then were not really satisfied.

Quite maddening really!

What drove us, why are we still so aggressive, why are we still ready for a fight and, if we saw there was no longer any imminent danger, what would we do if we weren’t holding ourselves back….?

Let’s attempt to answer our own question, any that we come up with, as a human kind.

It’s not the asking the question that’s important, we ask a question so we can start a journey, TOGETHER, a lot of us have been worrying for no good reason!

The point of being alive is to be alive. To experience it, to try it, find out the different sides of humanity/yourself and that a godly union is also the connection between two people, who ever they are in whatever capacity.

We (too many of us) men and women, black and white, break a union down to what happens in the bedroom (that’s the only disgusting thing about it! It has nothing to do with sex, that’s making a trinity isn’t it?).

When we come together honestly and openly we work exponentially better than when we are separate.

But only if it is kept sacred. Respectful.

We are already that which we seek, we’ve just been too scared to take a look!

If there is one idea that I would like to keep

you going until you GET this book it’s the idea of the Eureka moment, we’ve all had one, a moment of clarity, the aha moment. You know why it happens a lot at night? That is how your brain works at peace.

You are capable of having it all the time,

and that in fact, you already do!

I was dyslexic! All my writing comes from a place I cannot explain yet. This is simply what happens when I have room to breath. When My mind is at peace.

Amazing!

Mice always seem to know where they are going:

Hole behind fridge,

check the coast is clear,

jump to the cupboard,

round the biscuit barrel,

up the spoons,

identify crumb of cheese, then back the same way.

I’ve only ever caught one of them doing it

when I went to make a sandwich in the middle of the night

(falling asleep with the t.v on again!):

The light went on, he stopped, I stopped,

he started I didn’t move.

For some reason he looked like he had

a purpose, like I was witnessing an event of some sort and there may be other players, maybe an ATTACK?

No. But I listen for a tiny assault from the

back anyway, cos you never know!

No, not an attack but something just feels off, he or she is a little too comfortable for

my liking.

Oh wait! If I stand completely still, don’t make a sound, give it time, let them get comfy I might just get to see…………

…………. the greatest mouse circus the world has ever seen, Oh it would be marvelous, trapeze artists, a ringmaster, the marching band, a spectacle, what joy!!!

They may just fix my shoes…..

Hold on a minute!?……. i’m still half asleep,

it’s just a mouse. Let’s see what it does, and as I told you before she seemed to have a perfect path laid out

(I added the bit about up the spoons cos

my son likes the movie ratatouille!),

like she’d made the journey many times before, and like that she was gone!

I was half asleep.

He did make me think:

"If everything we do is so backward, maybe i’m in the maze? as I walked back to bed."

maybe that’s why i keep losing my keys?!

And why is my cat the one who’s sleeping!?

The one.

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What’s right with us?

World peace, what is that anyway?

And if accepted we spent most of our time fighting in our own minds, could we all just STOP being so silly about it?

‘The problem is choice, simple.’

Well ok, it’s never that simple is it?

Choices made through fear, snap decisions we thought we had to make.

Are we being forced to choose sides?

Ok I have it!

The problem is…….. thinking you had to make a choice.

Getting involved in other people’s problems.

Other people’s problems. (That’s all they are!)

(did you really need to have an opinion?).

Our need to have an identity pushes us to think we have to choose. And then we get stuck defending our choices!

If no one had to make the choice for better or worse, what would we have to fight about?

If yours was just as good as mine but in a completely different way, would life be so boring?

Or would having no need to argue simply stop us from holding ourselves back?

We know something’s not right, and it’s not the planet (that’s fine), it’s just us that don’t fit in properly.

"We all thought we had to make a choice.

We fight for our right to choose.

We are free to make our own choices.

If there’s