Thursday 5 February 2015

Corners...

None of us can know what is around the next corner. Corners are tricky things; they hide what is around them and hide us from whatever is waiting for us around them. Some people don’t even want to look around the next corner, it frightens them; it’s the unknown element probably. I can understand that, I’ve been frightened by corners for most of my life.

These days though, after years of not wanting to venture around lots of corners of my life, I quite like corners. You see, although you never know what’s around them that something could be really, really good. Now I’m not saying that I don’t feel scared anymore when I approach the next corner, but I also feel excited. It COULD be something really, really GOOD.

It’s taken me years to get here though. To look for sunshine rather than cloud, then find that silver lining inside that cloud, accept that the silver is just as good as gold. After all who needs gold when you have silver?

Besides what’s the alternative? Living your life in a state of nothingness just in case the thing around the next corner is bad? Deciding that there’s no point, that it’s hopeless, before you’ve even really tried? Hanging back instead of walking forward, hiding yourself away, or worse still taking yourself out of the picture altogether so that you don’t have to think about turning the next corner?

When the path seems hard, harder than you think you can endure, just look for the next corner and rush towards it. Even if it’s not all good it’ll be different and that has to be better than nothingness.

9 comments:

  1. Sharon Taylor on FB
    I totally agree, I am looking forward to turning my corner, it has got to be better than standing still.

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    1. Andrew Height
      I'm sure that your corner will be full of opportunity Sharon.

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  2. Tim Preston on FB
    Well done Andy. You've just pin pointed my worst fear. And my habit of procrastination. ......... but in the words of Bruce Sprinstien in Born to Run - I can still get out while I'm young

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    1. Andrew Height
      That's the last thing you should ever do Tim. You may think that you are coming back as a contestant on Celebrity Juice but the reality, in the words of the great god Tesco, is once it's gone, it's gone.

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  3. Andrew Height
    Tim your other comments give me food for thought. In many ways a void of nothing seems so attractive. The downside for me would be that I was part of the nothing and I'm not ready to be nothing yet.
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      Tim Preston

      Ah now, you see, I see nothingness as beautiful. The world in which we live in is barely nothing - just a few zillion atoms which are practically all empty space and some natural forces to fool our senses. The world that surrounds us is illusion and it only appears solid if you let it convince you. If you don't part your hair in the middle then people won't like you. Do you DARE to eat a peach? That is this illusiary world building walls in your mind that feel so real. If you can remain above it and learn to love yourself - the centre of the universe - you learn how to play with it and not let it dominate you. You ask Niels Bohr or Siddhartha Gautama.

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    2. Tim Preston:

      Here's something I thought of. Instead of seeing nothingness as as sterile void, why not decide to see it as a cornucopia of possibilities. You are in control of your mind and you can decide what opinion to have of things. If you decide to see it as depressing then that is your own decision :-)

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    3. This post has disturbed me. Are you two trying to force something to happen and it's frustrating you? I dunno but when you see a toddler trying to hammer a square peg into a round hole, you (lovingly) tell it to step back and have a look at the other holes. If I'm being an annoying shit here I give you permission to hurl lots of abuse at me.

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  4. Just a footnote. This blog is really about something else altogether. It's about the suicide of a young man who didn't give himself chance to turn that corner. I knew him. So sad and such a waste.

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