Free World

It’s a hard enough dance when is concerned. Yet, what’s even more difficult is when I need to sway to the tune of the music along with touching and blistering my feet on the ground full of burning embers. Yes, Nestinarstvo is a Bulgarian Fire Dance where dancers walk on smoldering embers bare foot. This ritual started from our ancestors or my mother’s grandmother’s grandmother’s grandmother or more to celebrate the Sun God and bless our villages with prosperity and peace yearly. Though, today, we hardly ever celebrate this event since the

Mechanical Era began.

Nestinarstvo or Fire Dance Balgari

Still, our village in Balgari obligates girls or boys of the town to participate in this ritual. And this is my first time to join the troupe this year. I am turning fifteen next month and in turn for the blessing of my birth are the feasts of Saints Constantine and Helena. Haa…I am not a pagan. Yet, I don’t believe and venerate saints, only believe that there is a God and the universe provides for our food, home, money and family’s good health. On the other hand, since I need to join Ogon Horos I have no choice. Participating in this year’s Muzic Festivales is the main event for the teen agers life here. Hehe, well, maybe, just mine, okay, okay! But, I really needed this, I am eyeing to bag an A for this huge extracurricular activity to remain at the top of the class in my first year at Balgari, Slovak High.

Hmm…I am able to get the steps right, one, two, three….which is like moving into the beat of the drums and stringing waves of intuition, feel of music. From fiery to strange battle tunes, to fun, merry, savage to melancholic strings, flutes and orchestras, I feel like floating, jumping and moving to my soul’s deeper longings, inner desires right now.

It’s amazing, like I’m enveloped in this calm, beautiful resonating frequency, waves of nature and earth, like I am in trance or something!..., Ogy thought while moving her body to the beat of Fire Queen by Filip Lackovic which is about 10000 years old now, I think. It was released in the year 2025 and now it’s year 10,000, and it’s where mechanical cyborgs are common and planets are like provinces we can travel too or even visit to every once in a while.

Now, it’s not common to dance anymore, since, we already have virtual assistant who you can dance with or even dance for you if you don’t feel like it. Everything is simple, easy and digital. This era is called Mecha and it’s where cyborgs, humans and mixbrids start to mingle and try to get along with each other. Before humans had nature, racial, religious, class and political clashes, discriminations, injustices and issues, now it isn’t the problem we are facing but invasions from other galaxies since Earth has cyborg, military and mobile skims or robots as soldiers, maids, employees, bosses or business men, women or clients.

It is a Free World, One United Universe and that is what we abide to with the Supreme Leader. Supreme Leaders, Ambassadors, Senators and Counsels are like the heads of states in planets in the universe or galaxies.