02 Dec Challenges & Possibilities

Challenges are arising. Whether with volcanic force, sudden, explosive and all-encompassing, or an irritant’s formation into a pearl – long and slow, a reaction to a stimulus. An effort must be exerted to scale what can appear unscalable. The tipping point is unseen, only felt. A point clouded as it were in the mists and whispers of the unknown. The vapours of thoughts of failure mask it.

Often the outcome, the other side of the challenge, is visualized, an imagined result that acts as the impetus to take the first step – yet it is the process of stepping that defines the challenge. Not the height, not the width, the length, nor the reality of conscious awareness. Whether small or grand, the stepping forward, fast or slow, defines both the challenge and the solution. There is a moment in which the peak is in sight, where the actuality of the stepping lead, as we lean forward stretching in the final few steps – we can be thrown off balance, we can slip, we can lose our momentum. Careful stepping to the peak, awash in the knowledge that we achieved what was first perhaps considered unachievable. As we peek over the edge, we know that we made it; the descent requires stepping, a new way, and carrying forward what we learned on the ascent. As we move ahead completing the challenge, the action of reflection,  critically seeking the lessons of the climb, allows us to see the possibilities.