Generally, it’s hard to look directly at the sun. Those warm beautiful rays are blinding. And so it’s easy to look away and not even try. Besides who wants to be half blind anyway?
Sometimes life is blinding too. It takes turns we never thought it could; sometimes these turns are a result of our decisions, someone else’s or unforeseen occurrences. Often we are left reeling from these turns and twists of life. In some cases, they knock us right off our feet, landing on our butts or backs, leaving our heads spinning.
They bring about feelings that erode our well built self esteem. They sow seeds of doubt in who we are and our ability to succeed in anything. These feelings are strongly coated with low self worth, heavily seasoned with disappointment, well garnished with despair and are delicately plated on failure.
While some events leave a bruise on us, some leave a scar. These scars we carry with us, they define us for the best or worst. While the onset of our outcome may not have been directed by us; the one thing we have a hand in is how it affects us. That being said, it’s not an overnight determination but it is your determination nonetheless.
What broke you today, is a building block tomorrow. The art of getting up with grace isn’t how you lift of the ground, it’s the resolution that you are going to lift yourself. Grace follows and is manifest by that resolution. The act of getting up off the floor only happens when you have made a conscious decision to get up off the floor. Whether you jump up, slowly push yourself, shuffle or slowly bubble up, the reality is you left the floor once you made the decision in your mind.
So, back to the sun! Never shy away from hurting your eyes briefly. After the blinding light comes a parade of beautiful colours that can only surface from that one direct look at the sun. Now, chin up and turn your face toward the sun, there’s a colour parade waiting.
penpushers 