Tuesday Mental Musings

There comes a point in our lives when we all fall from grace, even if we have never considered ourselves living within its boundaries. This fall is a natural occurance that happens when we fail to live up to the levels of honor and correct behavior we have set for ourselves or that others have set for us. It happens when we go against our own natural character, against the expectations we or others have for ourselves or when we push against the perimeters that we have accepted and worked within up until the fall. It happens because we are human and making mistakes is part of the human experience.

Falling from grace isn't so bad. It gives us a chance to make decisions and making decisions often brings about change, something most of us yearn for even when we fear and dread it. Falling presents choices and it is we, individually, who decide to take the responsibility and power any opportunity to make a choice brings. Regardless of whether the fall was just a stumble or a drop off a cliff it is an opportunity to redefine ourselves and our lives. We can decide to we pick ourselves up and continue on the journey or allow the tumble to keep us in places where we have decided to be. The choice is ours. Most of us dust ourselves off and keep going, but even when we do it doesn't mean we won't fall again. It just means that we understand that these stumbles are part of the gift of being human, the gift of being able to make choices and evolve, the gift of living.

If we do it right, meaning if we reassess and begin the journey again with new found understanding and intent, we have the choice of living a life balanced life between extremes, as it is often the tasting of those extremes that make us fall to being with. We can choose to understand what lies in the middle of emotions and sensations so that we can experience the nuances of being not just the intensities of life. This doesn't mean by standing in the middle of ourselves that we will forgo the highs and lows that make life the wonderful ride it is, it means that we can develop the ability to identify and address extreme situations that usually throw us off from our intent and decided purpose and then make decisions that are right for us.

Being neither angel nor demon, despite having attributes of both, falling is inevitable. Our lot isn't to live at the extreme spectrum of the senses but to experience them in the round. We are human and it is because we are human we have an even larger gift than any celestial being has; we humans, flawed perfections and all, neither damned nor saved for long, can make mistakes and fall but in most cases we can regain balance and choose to place one foot in front of the other and continue on this journey called life.