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a chance to float away

It seems sometimes that life is a matter of inertia. We are set in motion — sometimes voluntarily, sometimes not. We gather momentum — sometimes deliberately, sometimes not. And there we are, moving in a direction that to somebody at some point seemed correct. Moving, moving, often moving so fast we can’t see where we’re going, why we’re going there, moving so fast we can’t even see if there is a there there.

Relationships, career, ownership, thoughts, beliefs — they gain mass and somehow increase the velocity of life, and time becomes compressed, and it’s all happening too fast and too inevitably and how do we change direction, how do we slow down? How do we…

…catch hold of something and stop. Take grip of something and stop. Just for a brief moment, stop. Interrupt the inertia, ignore Newtonian Law, seize on to something and don’t let go. Until you’re ready. And if the wind is blowing north, go northeast. If you can go northeast, then eventually can go due east, then southeast, then any damned direction you want. But first…

…first you have to stop.

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