We also have an obsession with happiness as though it were yet another purchasable product.
As a child I once tried to stand in the end of a rainbow to feel the colours on me. I ran back and forth across a wet field with friends shouting directions across the cow pats.
But rainbows can't be seen from close up. The irony of happiness as a product is that it disappears when we look directly at it, as ephemeral as that rainbow.
When we are young we jump into a pool whether we can swim or not. We have no fear. Either we swim or we drown.
Before the age of 30 important things happen to us which shape the rest of our lives. We become aware of ourselves and our own thinking. We reach the age of reason. In our new-found maturity we begin to think in a more adult way. We become grown up! Recklessness and risk are not compatible with age. Risk becomes something which must be carefully considered.
Or is it!!!
We all have a negative voice in our heads that stops us from taking risks. Ask yourself what you really have to lose. Most of the time it's about ego and less about any real loss. Go first. Have the courage to do something before waiting to see if others are willing.
“Two bubbles found they had rainbows on their curves.
They flickered out saying:
"It was worth being a bubble, just to have held that rainbow thirty seconds.”
~~ Carl Sandburg
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| I was out walking with a friend around Palm Beach in Sydney and this Magpie came up to us and seemed to have some advice to offer. |
