Stay Afloat

Sometimes life throws us into a tumultuous storm, uprooting everything that we believed to be permanent, immutable. And all of a sudden we find ourselves grappling for the ground beneath our feet. What do we do then? Do we remain unbending and rigid, or do we become fluid enough to remain unbroken? Perhaps the storm is not ominous; may be in its wake we will find ourselves slightly unencumbered of all that we hold on to that no longer serve us. But for that to happen, we have to be willing to stay afloat in the uncertainty of that moment. When everything else goes awry in the world around, we can always choose to turn inwards to that part of ourselves which is untouched by time and space. And may be when the storm clears we can find a little more clarity even in the unfamiliar new reality, a little more strength to tread another mile and a little more softness to accept that which we cannot change.

​- d.h.