This feeling is like no other. It encompasses everything
learned through experience, all the trust and hope and faith in one’s self and
taking stock of your abilities with pride. Defying fear of loss, denying regret
at every turn, fueling your present moment with a vision of tomorrow that is
tailored by you as artist – in front of a gigantic canvas surrounded
by fresh paint.
Many attend and try to
describe the sensations that surround the event and the subsequent euphoria
when one overcomes the challenges faced by just being there. No one talks about
the minor setbacks and the long, hard hours, and the exhaustion that can take
you out of your comfort zone, slapping you for being in any way spoiled from
such creature comforts. It’s a personal battle that you wage in signing up.
Given enough time to negotiate one’s limits, embracing your human element and
honoring that inner voice that wants to protect you from feeling under the task
at hand, only then can you see just how far you really can go and what you
are truly capable of. The only thing that ever stands between you and what is
already inside of you, waiting on you to recognize its been there all along, is
you. Once determined, and the steps are taken, you find everything you need at
your hands, and the thrust forward is remarkable! It’s as if there never was a
time when you felt you couldn’t do, whatever that may be. You are capable of
that which you can imagine!
Looking
outward with that new found confidence that comes from within, trusting yourself
to do right by you and others, it’s amazing to me how not alone we all really
are. So many like minds with the goal of achieving their own personal brand of
brilliance. I am encouraged by the choices belief brings, knowing when you
focus on an outcome that gives back in such generous and supportive ways, what
you get back is far greater than any expectation you can assign to an event.
People do care. They want to soar, as you do. Reaching your capable hands forward,
allow them to be clasped by those ready to lead you further along that path, or
help guide those ready to learn how to grow. We are all in a unique position to
do a great many things with the time we have left. All it takes is the giving
of ourselves to ourselves the permission to fly.
“Come to the edge, he said. They said: We are afraid. Come to the edge, he said. They came. He pushed them and they flew.” - Guillaume Apollinaire
Photo by: Pear Biter
