“But time…how time first grounds us and then confounds us. We thought we were being mature when we were only being safe. We imagined we were being responsible but were only being cowardly. What we called realism turned out to be a way of avoiding things rather than facing them. Time..give us enough time and our best-supported decisions will seem wobbly, our certainties whimsical.”

Julian Barnes,  “The Sense Of An Ending.”

I remember the moment when I knew I was not really being safe, and refused to be cowardly any longer. And I faced my life rather than avoid or surrender it or lie about it.  And so time will grind me down, as it will us all, but not yet, not then, not that way. We make our own fate, paint a picture of our lives and imagine them, and we either jump or don’t. That is the Leap Of Faith, the Hero’s Journey,  and those are the moments that define us, and shape our lives. Time may ground me down, I understand, but I will not grind me down. Every day I am called to renew this vow, and every day I take it.