Imagine the skill needed to walk a tightrope;
each step is in the NOW.
If the walker allows themselves to think
about the steps beyond the current one,
they lose their focus
and they lose their balance.
It is by staying in the now,
all energy focused on the current step,
the task in the moment,
that they complete the walk successfully.
Peggy Black
With a very heavy heart, I walk the tightrope encased in fear,
placing one foot in front of the other.
Don't look back!
Don't look forward!
Don't look down!
There is an absence of a net beneath me. Only darkness is stretched there. I teeter on the high wire, never balanced rightly so. If I fall, I will be falling into nothingness. Falling into a pitch black void.
One foot in front of the other.
Don't look back!
Don't look forward!
Whatever you do ... don't look down!
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