Sometimes One Must Jump In
Thursday, August 14, 2008 by Billy
 Saint-Alexis-des-Monts, Québec — July 2005 |
Sometimes one must jump in
When you do that
You might wind up over your head
Or perhaps
You will float downstream
Worrying if there are rocks below
But when one stands
On riverside for too long
Then one is thinking too much
sometimes one must jump out ...
of the floating downstream
or
the struggling upstream ...
because when one stands
in the river too much,
not feeling the rocks below,
the riversides
and the sky-above
anymore
then one is sinking too much...
when you do that...
you might reconsider the river...
its sides and insights...
'Sometimes' is the word, Mrs Anonymous. Sometimes... one can be intrepid, or cautious, a player or an observer, an ermit, or part of the crowd.
I quoted Heraclitus lately, elsewhere: "It is in changing that we find purpose". I would rather follow him than Epicurus who aimed at pleasure by staying away of any risk of pain.
“Sometimes” was and is the word… as there are some right times for all one can/want/should be, as you stated …
Knowing that, I just had the intrepidity of cautiously taking your “sometimes” for a jump into a crowded recollection of some “sometimes” of my own…observing the Sometimes facets and playing with it, in an interactive, yet, hermitical kind of way.
Merci