Come to the Edge

'Come to the edge,' He said. They said, 'We are afraid.'
'Come to the edge,' He said. They came.
He pushed them...
and they flew.
--Guillaume Apollinaire

This is an all time favorite. I find it comforting.

It says to me that trusting and being vulnerable are difficult. That the value in letting go, in part, comes from that difficulty, and the courage it takes to make the leap.

In fact, it doesn't matter what befalls you on the other side of the leap.

The victory is in leaping (not lemming like leaping) but soaring, flying, opening to whatever lie on the other side of flying.

This is how I would like to be.

I would like to have a trusted soul who could tell me to leap.