There is a dark, heavy thing in many of our pasts. We don’t like that it is there. It sucks. Perhaps it was born in the past and continues to haunt us in both major and minor ways. And maybe it is a living relationship that continues to rear its ugly head into our lives and minds. Don’t let it eat you up.
Push off of it.
Some of us were made to fly. We know how to take something dark and heavy, and make it our floor, our launching ground. Every dancer understands that the most important part of a jump is the moment just before leaving the earth. The stronger the push downward, the higher the flight. That’s when we achieve ballon—a dancer’s term for the illusion of weightlessness, borrowed from the French word for balloon. It’s the moment suspended in air, like hang time in basketball—a brief triumph over gravity, before it pulls us back into its orbit with force.
Push off of that dark, heavy thing.
Make it give you better posture. Make that ugly morphing monster the reason you fly. Make it produce the energy you need to get over that next hurdle.
Some of us were built to fly. Just know that.