A Leap of Faith

Life is a comedy. I mean comedy in not a funny way, but an oddly satirical and ironical way. You don’t always get what you wish for. Sometimes when you do get things that you wish for, you feel cheated because what you got was something that you had imagined to be good in your own way, and is now no longer relevant as you now know the truth. You feel cheated, when you don’t get what you wish for- you blame a higher power. But then, things don’t exactly turn out what they seem to be and you find out that it was good without it, because something better awaited your way.

The irony of life is you can’t really know what is good or bad till you know it, and even then you can’t be sure.

I was lost then. I am lost now, but I hope am not wandering aimlessly any more. I often recall the following from Lord of the Rings:

All that is gold does not glitter,

Not all those who wander are lost;

The old that is strong does not wither,

Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

From the ashes a fire shall be woken,

A light from the shadows shall spring;

Renewed shall be blade that was broken,

The crownless again shall be king.

In the rat race of doing things the way other people do it, I believe I lost myself. Too often, we resist doing we feel is right, we resist following our impulses in doing as to what we believe is good, we resist doing in what we believe will make us happy.

I no longer want to be a rat. I no longer want to run.

FLY!

Yes, that is what I want. For once, when you finally think of something amazing, the idea catches up with you. You can longer be happy with running on the ground, for you have tasted flight- that gush of wind in your face, that thrill of flight.

All that is required is a Leap of Faith!