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- Story Listed as: True Life For Adults
- Theme: Inspirational
- Subject: Family
- Published: 08/11/2026
The Magical Portal
Born 1959, M, from Klerksdorp, South Africa
The Magical Portal
Life’s Lesson
A wise old man they called Wolf once said, sit with this, not quickly, not lightly, but deeply. Imagine a world where women did not give birth. Imagine that no child ever grew beneath a mother’s heart, no life was carried, no body endured the silent miracle of creation. Instead, imagine that every human being who has ever lived, every soul, every breath, every story, arrived through one single, mysterious, magical portal.
Not many, just one. One place on earth through which all of humanity enters. Now pause and truly picture it. Would people ignore it? Would they speak carelessly about it? Would they allow it to be disrespected, controlled, or diminished? No never.
They would stand before it in silence. They would approach it with humility. They would teach their children about it with reverence. It would be protected beyond measure. Nations would build laws around it. Armies would guard it. No harm would be allowed to come near it. People would travel across continents just to witness it, just to stand in its presence, just to feel connected to something so powerful, so essential, so sacred.
Religions would be born from it. Rituals would be created to honor it. There would be days of celebration, nights of prayer, songs sung across generations, all dedicated to this one truth, that through this portal, life itself enters the world. Because every person, every single one… came through it. Every mother, every father. Every king, every worker. Every artist, every soldier. Every person you have ever loved, and every person who has ever hurt you.
All of them began there. Without it, there would be nothing. No history. No future. No humanity. Now take a breath, because here is the truth we have somehow forgotten.
That portal is real. It has always been real. It is not hidden. It is not mythical. It is not something we must search for across oceans or protect behind walls. It is here. It has always been here. It is a woman.
She is the living doorway through which humanity enters existence. She carries life where there was once silence. She nurtures what cannot survive on its own. She gives of her body, her strength, her very being, to bring another life into this world. Before you had a name, you were inside her. Before you saw light, you were held in her darkness. Before you took your first breath, you lived beneath the rhythm of her heart.
She was your first home. Still, in a world that should recognize this as the greatest miracle of all, we have allowed something sacred to be treated as ordinary. We have allowed women to be spoken over, dismissed, controlled, judged, and diminished. We have built systems that forget their worth, cultures that overlook their power, and habits that fail to honor what should never be forgotten.
How did we become so blind? How did we take the very source of life, and reduce it to something negotiable, something secondary, something to be questioned or controlled? The truth is uncomfortable, but it is real, we grew used to the miracle. We stopped seeing it. We stopped feeling it. We forgot that what is common is not the same as what is ordinary.
Because there is nothing ordinary about a woman. She is not just part of humanity. She is the beginning of it. Every path you have walked started with her. Every dream you have chased began because she carried you into this world. Every moment you have lived was made possible through her quiet, unseen strength.
That truth should change something in us. It should soften the way we speak. It should deepen the way we respect. It should strengthen the way we protect. It should awaken something that reminds us to honor, not out of obligation, but out of understanding. Because once you truly see it, you cannot unsee it.
The sacred has never been somewhere else. It has never needed to be discovered. It has never needed to be imagined. It has always been here. In every woman. In every mother. In every life that has ever begun. So remember this, and carry it with you.
If humanity truly understood what a woman is, there would be no debate about her worth.
There would only be respect.
There would only be honor.
There would only be gratitude.
The Woman, not just man's sexual pleasure, but the reason for mankind's complete existence.
Because without that “PORTAL”, there is no life, no story, no us.......
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✍Author, Article Writer, Life Coach, Novelist & Poet✍
Marius F Robbertze (WOLF)
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Additional Comments: You would think that this should be obvious. It's sad that some do not think so.
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