Working Without A Net

Sometimes we need to step outside the comfort zone, jump on a highwire and go for it.

Sometimes we do not.

I'm nearing a crossroads of decision. I need to move on, to create art and to take a more aggressive stance on getting my work out there and seen again. I'm pretty darned sure I'm ready, but I always have a nagging doubt, a small voice that whispers that I should just stay in my nest and be content to stretch the wings every once in a while.

In order to become what we need to be, sometimes we have to study the power of working without a net. To scare ourselves, to let go of the hand that holds us and binds us to the things we are used to. No one can help us take that leap. It has to be something we are ready for inside.

Nets can be two things: They can save us from falling to our deaths and they can entrap us, not allowing us to be free. And, learning to trust the Universe is a hard one, even for me, who has always lived by the theory that with trust, you lose fear.