Free Fall

Free Fall

There’s something easy, addictive about allowing yourself to just be guided by the ‘gravity’ of life’s demands. At some level, it’s as if you’re being guided by a logical force, staying in the air only as long as it takes you to land.

There’s a problem with getting stuck in free fall though. One, you eventually land, and two, you only land where the force of ‘gravity’ allows for you to land. What I’m saying is that it’s occasionally easy for us to slip into a process of simply doing the bare necessities in life, aiming for a B, settling for a content life, or even just a convenient one. It’s easy to slip into this mode because it creates the illusion of activity while not exerting us. It doesn’t exert your fear of failure, doesn’t push you outside your comfort zone. It is cushy in its mediocrity. Then, one day you look up and realise that that easy breeze in your hair, the comfortable feeling of just floating through with minimal effort – it gets old, and it gets lonely and it leaves you with a disgusting feeling in the pit of your stomach that doesn’t flutter, or change, it just stays there.

So don’t get stuck in free fall. Don’t settle for merely being guided wherever life’s demands take you. There is no ‘fate’ but yours and even if there was, you have the will to leave your comfort zone and feel the exhilaration of where life begins.

So flail around, do somersaults, hell, try to fly against the force. Who said you had to land? Because though it’ll scare you, you’ll be plagued by doubt that you can’t do it or that you’ll somehow prove to yourself that you can’t – that feeling in your stomach, it flutters, pulses and exhilarates you to your core. It’ll draw your heart into the mix and you’ll feel it fall and rise as your arms and legs flail against a force that thinks its greater than your will. But it’s not. And after all that’s over, you’ll realise that there’s a smile on your face and a proud warmth simmering throughout your body. Because, boy you really felt alive, and wow, you actually tried that! Go you!

So aim for A+’s, try to get the girl, be weird, aspire to above your station in life, get pistachio AND strawberry ice cream (they go great together).

Because “there is no passion to be found in playing small – in settling for a life less than the one you are capable of living”.

✌

Embrasse l’Aurore.
Yakum
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