On the edge
Posted on March 1, 2010 with 0 comments
Sometimes we sit on the edge - our last nerve, our last penny, a cliff, wherever or whatever. It all feels the same at one specific moment that we can't pinpoint, but we know it's true in hindsight. Do we fall? Usually not. Faith keeps us up, emotions simmer down, and when we're lucky, we look at all that holds us up, and sometimes faith is enough.
In our modern world, we spend countless hours, days, months and years worrying about getting sick and dying, losing our homes, or worse. Does society bring us to these negative thoughts? Do we create them? Do we make them real if we concentrate hard enough, convince ourselves we have some plague, or destiny wandering the streets looking for a scrap of food, a stairwell to sleep in... do we have control over how our cells morph, our next job, our next smile?
We definitely have control of a smile. And if that smile can bring a happy thought, like things aren't as bad as we can create in our heads, love surrounds us and runs through us, then we're at least better off than without the smile. Can a smile cure cancer? We never really know. Scientists might laugh, but in truth, they haven't cured it, either. I say smile.
xo,
NP
In our modern world, we spend countless hours, days, months and years worrying about getting sick and dying, losing our homes, or worse. Does society bring us to these negative thoughts? Do we create them? Do we make them real if we concentrate hard enough, convince ourselves we have some plague, or destiny wandering the streets looking for a scrap of food, a stairwell to sleep in... do we have control over how our cells morph, our next job, our next smile?
We definitely have control of a smile. And if that smile can bring a happy thought, like things aren't as bad as we can create in our heads, love surrounds us and runs through us, then we're at least better off than without the smile. Can a smile cure cancer? We never really know. Scientists might laugh, but in truth, they haven't cured it, either. I say smile.
xo,
NP