Why do you think people love to read and/or hear stories so much? One – they can be a welcome pause or reprieve from suffering. Two – they can serve as a bridge to other places, even other worlds or realities. I love finding out what I can learn from them, too.
Everything’s got a moral, if only you can find it.
-Lewis Carroll
I love Lewis Carroll. Actually, I love all people. Unfortunately, there are some people that I hate more than I love currently. In my opinion, if they behave better, then that love-hate scale will shift more towards love slowly. That choice is theirs, though. and time will tell.
Digression aside, books, stories, and pretty much anything and everything can serve as a bridge if you let it by looking at it the right way. Perhaps through a looking-glass, eh? Think about Alice falling down the rabbit hole. Think about Dorothy leaving Kansas via the tornado. Think about Siddhartha under the tree s-i-t-t-i-n-g. How many bridges may be presenting themselves to you that you may simply ignore or walk on by? I would not worry much, though, because there will always be the next one. I promise you. What is done is already done. What can you do next? The next best thing. That is what I focus on daily and what I tell myself along the way. I sugjest you consider doing the same please.
The three examples above (Alice, Dorothy, and Siddhartha) all experienced intense and often overwhelming vertical bridges – rude and rapid awakenings. I do not recommend that approach if you are able to avoid it. Instead, slow and gradual inclines are preferred.
I strongly sugjest shaping your bridge, else it may shape you in unforeseen ways.
Bridges have been fascinating to cross this cycle. I do not feel like I have fully exhausted this topic, though, so maybe some themes will repeat themselves across cycles in a fashion that is currently unknown to me. It could happen, and it could not. Time will tell.
What I do know, though, is that balance is next. It is far easier to stay high up on one’s bridge if one has adequate and appropriate balance. Recently, I heard from one expert in my life that a lot of yoga focuses on finding the middle ground. Essentially, it is all about balance. I think about Goldilocks a lot these days – what is not too hard, and what is not too soft? Instead, what is just right? There is so much more I could say and run with from here, but it is not yet time for all of that. Please know that I am overjoyed to keep writing, yet I must maintain my balance with that joy so as to not get carried away, off my bridge.
Maybe it is wise. Maybe it is dumb. Time will tell.