Are You Jibaro, or Zima Blue?

True freedom is not just resistance to manipulation, but the ability to build a different relationship to the world.

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Some people mistake silence for freedom

They think that if they can’t be touched by the song, the lies, the manipulations, the currents that sweep others away, they are already free.

But Jibaro shows us otherwise. He was deaf to the siren, spared from the frenzy that drowned everyone else. And yet, when she came close, when she opened herself, he could not meet her. He stripped her of gold and left her broken. His immunity became greed, and in the end, the river claimed him too.

Immunity without transformation is only another form of captivity.

Zima Blue

Zima was also immune. Not to songs, but to the illusions of fame, spectacle, the world’s projections. He peeled away every layer until all that remained was a simple pool-cleaning machine, returning to the work for which he was made. In that return, there was no greed, no violence, no illusion. There was only essence, simplicity, and peace.

Where Jibaro consumed others, Zima returned to himself.

That is the choice life sets before us

Not just whether we can resist the song, but whether we can create something new when the song is gone. Whether silence turns us bitter, or whether it opens the space to live differently.

We can be like Jibaro: immune to one trap, but devoured by another. Or be like Zima: stripping away illusions until finding the essence that endures. Many of us move between the two.

But we are not meant to be drifting. The purpose of realizing the difference is to choose: to strive for Zima. To live each day in that essence, that clarity, that freedom.

Because the world is full of songs that demand our attention, and silences that tempt us into greed. To resist the song is rare. To build a new relationship after the song is gone - that is freedom.

The choice is before us every day:

Are you Jibaro, or Zima Blue?