Crossing the line

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When one is ‘crossing the line’, one is stepping into a space where one doesn’t belong. It can be the literal space of another person, but more often it is a line of behavior that is crossed. And as these lines mark spaces ~ sometimes even territories ~ as soon as a line is drawn, polarities are at play...
What is mine and what is yours. In your comfort zone or out of your comfort zone. Polite or rude. Acceptable or unacceptable behavior...

It is our choice to determine what is acceptable to us and what is not ~ and on top of that whether we want to be confronted with this different energy within our own space, or whether we rather stick to what we know.
How each of us makes that choice determines if, when someone ‘crossing the line’ we experience this as an offense, a nuisance, or a new an refreshing experience.

However, looking at this from the other side, it does beg the question why? Why would anyone want to cross the line, and in doing so possibly upsetting, even intruding on someone else’s space and/or energy?
True, looking from the outside in, it is easier to see what is at play ~ and sometimes it is hard to resist the temptation of giving some un-asked for advice. But even when a person does ask for any advice ~ is it really necessary to cross that line?

And finally, there is yet a third perspective to crossing the line... What if you yourself cross the line ~ not from the inside out or into someone else’s space, but in a sense from the outside in. Placing yourself in a situation that is at its core non-acceptable to you, yet you make it sound like it is okay because after all you are doing it yourself.
It is an artifact of not claiming your own space, your own energy. You may have ‘drawn a line’ to mark your space ~ but when you yourself don’t respect your space and make it okay to cross that line, how can you expect from others to respect your space. To refrain from crossing the line.

What seems to make it even harder is that in the energy of today in which polarities are so obvious, the lines that are drawn usually are not quite as clear. They are wavy, and hardly ever sharp. They are more like grey areas that signal one is moving from one polarity into the other.
That one is ‘crossing the line’...
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