Let’s say you’re making your first parachute jump. The decision is already made, so there’s no question of whether to do it.
Naturally, a wave of negative emotions rises inside you. Anxiety, tension, fear—maybe even terror. This is not just a step out of a plane. Your life will not stay the same. You will become someone else—radically or slightly.
Why?
The act itself—and even the intention—already shows your trust in what may be. “But it may not be!” the mind panics, because it has nothing to hold on to.
It’s easy to trust what you can touch, put in a box, and measure down to the last decimal. Your back relaxes on its own when it feels the solid support of a chair.
How different must your way of seeing yourself and the world be to place your bet on what you cannot explain or even put into words? Not to others—and not even to yourself.
An invisible point of support.
Objectively, it does not exist. It cannot exist. And yet your being says otherwise—because you act in spite of fear and anxiety.
Are you wrong or right? No one can tell. This is the inner dynamic of a person. Still, the experience of others helps—jump manuals, religion, psychotherapy.
With each step like this, your trust in the unknown within you grows a little. The paradox of life begins to delight and amaze you more—and scare you less.
The main thing is this:
No one and nothing can take away your invisible point of support.
Sincerely yours,
-Alexander
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