A thought that simply popped into my head this morning. I started to write and it all followed. Enjoy.

" We do not fully commit ourselves to our dreams, getting to know somebody or something at the chance that our further investigation will tarnish the idealisation or fantasy of such a goal, person or thing. Getting to know it more may reveal that what we envisaged isn’t what actually is.

Yet without such queries, questions and resultant knowledge or at least the attempt to obtain it, where do we take ourselves in life?

We remain in the queue; waiting, watching and hoping.

We remain balanced on the beam between life and death, never daring to jump, dance or sing along it and risk falling into the crevasse below and the experiences of life.

What is below the beam will forever remain a mystery as we focus on making it through life and making it across the beam rather than doing a somersault and teetering on the edge of it or even falling off into the slings and arrows of life below.

What is existence without a hop, skip and a jump along the balance beam of life? ”

            (Matthew Defina, Sunday October 3, 2010)