In the Begining
In the beginning, the water is calm, the sun provides energy, the breeze brings a sense of cooling. All is ahead. This is how we grow, knowing not what is ahead, but enticed in all the possibilities. What is this that we are about to do? It is everything because it is what we will never experience again, and to not try it once is to deny it and our destiny be a part of something. It is worth what we are to become.
Time Stands Still
There is a point where the adventure lulls, we get used to what was earlier unknown, only to encounter something far more than we would have imagined. The shear force of the realization that risk is a kind word, and courage is an instant decision and commitment not to be withdrawn, the die is cast. Only through force of instant response and reaction on and on can you realize all that it represents. That you are allowed, you have passed some point in your nature that is more than all the previous experiences summed. To not have and stayed back would be no less than killing off a part of you, a part that desperately wanted the challenge. Every day we navigate the river.
Soaring
Like a great bird of prey, we are in control, we sense all we are, we feel exhilarated, we have passed the test of ourselves. We have done what many have not and are in the company of those who have. Like the great bird, our thoughts lift higher, in silent remembrance that only a little while earlier, it was a roll of the dice, would it go alright or turn out badly.