8.02.2010

take a leap.

the practice of jumping off cliffs is called "tomb-stoning."

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regardless of the ominous-label, this is what it is: a person making a leap & taking a plunge. a high degree of risk is involved. people will always rhetorically ask you if you would jump off a cliff if your friends did first. anywhere you go in this world people will discourage you from walking off cliffs -- but they'll stare in fuckin' amazement when you jump anyway. survive & provide proof and you'll inspire others to confront & overcome their personal fears. walking to the edge takes courage enough. jumping always requires a measure of faith: trust in a hope as sure as gravity; a peace that even if we're dashed on the rocks below we'll accept that too with open eyes. success and failure has to be met with unwavering spirit not to become inflated or deflated, so as to float perfectly in line with the zone (the place where we come alive and perform with excellence).

there will always be a million excuses for why you can't & why you shouldn't & all the more stories for why you couldn't or didn't. you either did or did not. you either fell & swam or you looked & retreated. the risk will be the same if you came back tomorrow "more prepared" and "better equipped." sure, the pieces have to be in order before you dive - the cliff has to be reached properly after all - but the moment of commitment will feel the same then or now so understand why you're hesitant. sure, you could always come back to the cliff some other time, but the longer you wait the more certain it will become that you never will return. time is infinite, of course, but as us humans only have finite time we can't rely on time alone to provide us with what we want. We have to prepare & be ready to do what we have to and take our actions against time. is the risk too great? it's an illusion - two outcomes projected by your mind - you must commit to the vision of one and manifest it. then again, sometimes accident do occur. sometimes chaos, the prankster, takes our legs right out from under us.
any death resulting from such an act couldn't be called a suicide. it'd simply be a circumstance that arose from zealously pursuing life. a miscalculation. an abortion of faith. gravity. an eventuality anyway because everybody is already dead, they just haven't experienced it forward-in-time yet, but whatever its guise it's already there waiting for us. there's a design to survival, so it goes: live long enough and you'll die from exposure.

hey, so ...

a) they call it tomb-stoning to discourage you from trying.

b) if ever you were going to change your life, or jump off a cliff, or do anything at all that you wanted to do: do it right now, or as soon as possible. even if it seems crazy to others, do what's right for you. believe in hope & take a leap.


c) this is your sign.

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