This weekend I did a handstand. It wasn’t pretty and it took
over a million attempts, not to mention I was aided by the salt water that I
was swimming in, but the point is my hands touched the bottom and I stood
inverted even if it were just for a second…. And well, I liked it. There is
something about being upside down and still standing that makes for a moment of
enlightenment, well for me at least. Like my handstand experience a lot of
things in my life have been turned upside down. It is a scary feeling, but unlike
my handstand I didn’t have the power to go back to my usual point of reference.
I was forced to feel around in the dark and make my situation comfortable when
all around me was different. Once
you start to feel around in that moment of confusion you’ll realize in
retrospect maybe we get too comfortable with our lives being right side up. The
real challenge comes when we have no idea where to start living, because life
as you knew it is forever gone. But maybe life isn’t supposed to ever get too
comfortable and maybe it’s supposed to shake us up so we can look at it from
different vantage points. Maybe the real test is what we make of life no
matter our disposition …… so maybe, just maybe, life on my hands can be beautiful.
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