What If You Fly?

I was getting ready to go to work and my roommate was listening to a song that I was unfamiliar with. (That's not unusual). One line kept repeating (obviously part of the chorus) and it simply said, "Why do I try? I know I'm gonna fall down."

Having just had a 30 minute long conversation with myself on a parallel topic I was struck by the height of appropriate-ness that I was witnessing. Ha. God has a sense of humor.

In a conversation - a couple of them, in fact - with my roommate, I told her, "I'm so afraid of falling that I don't even try to fly."

Her response was simple: "What if you fall? Ah, yes, but what if you fly?"

What if I fly?

Wouldn't that be worth any fear, any panic, any feeling of unworthiness or worthlessness? Wouldn't that be worth every pain?

What if I reach for those dreams of mine, reach for the moon and touch the stars?

In the musical "Mary Poppins", she sings, "If you reach for the stars all you'll get are the stars but we've got a whole new spin: If you reach for the heavens you get the stars thrown in." You never know what you may touch, what good you may do, who you may meet, how you may grow and learn if you never try.

(Believe me, I am reading all of this in first person).

Choose - Yes, it is a Choice - to move forward regardless of your fears. Choose something and go for it! We can be - we are our own worst enemies; don't allow yourself to be held back by you! I won't let myself be held back by me. That is my new resolution.

Said John Greenleaf Whittier, "Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these: 'It might have been!'"

Do not let regret tinge the vibrant colors and experiences and people of your life. And if it does, get back up and start going forward again with a new and firmer resolve to not stop simply because you might fall.

That's when you'll probably fly.