Fly

"The word failure is imperfect. Once we begin to transform it, it ceases to be that any longer. The term is always slipping off the edges of our vision, not simply because it's hard to see without wincing, but because once we are ready to talk about it, we often call the event something else - a learning experience, a trial, a reinvention - no longer the static concept of failure." 

Dr. Sarah Lewis 

 Author of The Rise, quoted by Dr. Brene Brown on Instagram. 

That last post was a hard one to write after. That experience was everything Sarah Lewis says it could be - a trial, a learning experience and a reinvention. The reinvention was a deep in your bones realisation that

We want to bring an exuberance to life, a sense of play and adventure, a joy that bubbles up from deep inside our hearts. As Adam J Kurtz says - it's not all sunshine and rainbows, but a good amount of it actually is. And no amount of anything is worth giving that up. What's perfect tho, is anything worth having requires us to not give that up, that joy, that sense of contentment. That's what I learnt - while listening to Matthew McConaughey's Green Lights - you don't need things, you want them.

There is a lot of Shahroo Izadi in this post, but she has a wonderful way of making me feel like every piece of wisdom comes from me, so it is hard to quote her. 

I think this, right here, is my affirmation:

There is an exuberance to life, a sense of play and adventure, a joy that bubbles up from deep inside the heart 

A deep sense of contentment And Gratitude That attracts the heart's desires, and a life that has room for all of them. 

So much going on - Apparently everything worth doing takes about 5 years to go from idea to end-product. I have spent the past few years listening to people like Neil Gaiman, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Grace Bonney, and even Joanna Goddard - and the way they make me feel is like that poem by Erin Hanson:

There is freedom waiting for you, 

On the breezes of the sky, 

And you ask "What if I fall?" 

Oh but my darling, 

What if you fly?”