Rise Above
Sister calls them monkeys.
Those doubting voices that sometimes get in her head, informing her of things she can’t do
& I’m great for advising.
Just tell the monkeys to !! go away !!I say.
GO AWAY
So. Easy.
Until those critters decide to visit me.
I had a very eventful day with the monkeys, recently.
They decided it was my brain they wanted to hunker in and hunker they did
& the bad news is, I let them.
I welcomed them.
Come on in boys ! Pick at my self confidence and tell me everything I am doing wrong
& oh, they had a lot to say.
So, I did what I always do when life gets a bit too overwhelming.
I fled to my happy place.
Because when I’m walking in that park, on that trail, everything comes together, everything makes sense.
I walk, walk, walk
& look.
Because I know if I open myself up to the signs, the signs will be there.
Except the monkeys were there too.
Picking, picking, picking.
Asking WHY? WHAT? HOW? WHEN?
ugh.
!! UGH !!
& that’s when it happened.
A gust of wind, directed straight at me.
Forceful, powerful, continual.
Making my determined, humphy, monkey carrying, walking steps not that easy anymore
So, I looked up to the skies with a ‘what now ??’
WHAT NOW ??
& there he was, a mighty hawk.
Struggling with that wind just as I was struggling with that wind, going nowhere, fast.
I stopped dead in my tracks and stared.
There he was.
Here I am.
That beautiful bird pushed those primates right out of my brain when he rode that wave of wind and discovered the route to rise above it
& rise he did.
Sweeping, soaring, dipping, diving.
It was absolutely breathtaking
& so, against the wind I walked.
& walked and walked.
Made it around the bend to a not so blustery part of the path, looked up and
Sign. Sign.
Everywhere a sign.
If you seek, you will find
& I promise, a happy heart always, ALWAYS follows.
So long, Monkeys.
🙂