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, be it taking other risks — The abyss here may be the future, or our failures, which can hold us back. I should know, I have been there a few times as well.</p><p id="5019">Not to sound cliched, but as the abyss stares back at us, it also hides the possibilities. Or, to be precise, it consumes all of our attention. We therefore need to appreciate what we do have, and what we are. Armed with that certainty, we get the strength to look past the abyss. Or to jump into it, knowing we can handle what comes our way.</p><p id="6bbf"><i>Have you been there, at the precipice of a life-altering decision? I am going to assume yes. How did you feel about it?</i></p><p id="0b1c">Yesterday’s Haiku —</p><div id="716b" class="link-block"> <a href="https://readmedium.com/haiku-0012-unyielding-a1a24ca1bf19"> <div> <div> <h2>Haiku — 0012: Unyielding</h2> <div><h3>Never gonna give up….</h3></div>

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Haiku — 0013: Abyss

You look down…

Standing on the edge,

A bottomless darkness ahead,

The abyss stares back.

Not exactly darkness, but I have stood at the edge of a mountain once, with a mighty river flowing with ferocity just a few hundred feet below. It is a feeling one can probably never convey in full words, the rush, the infinity assumed by those few hundred feet. These are moments where I learned to truly appreciate my life in its manifestation.

The same is true for metaphorical moments at the edge too — Be it the last moment before making a decision we may never revert, be it jumping into a trajectory of life we have no idea, be it taking other risks — The abyss here may be the future, or our failures, which can hold us back. I should know, I have been there a few times as well.

Not to sound cliched, but as the abyss stares back at us, it also hides the possibilities. Or, to be precise, it consumes all of our attention. We therefore need to appreciate what we do have, and what we are. Armed with that certainty, we get the strength to look past the abyss. Or to jump into it, knowing we can handle what comes our way.

Have you been there, at the precipice of a life-altering decision? I am going to assume yes. How did you feel about it?

Yesterday’s Haiku —

Haiku — 0012: Unyielding

Never gonna give up….

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And if you’re interested, here’s a poem about me confronting one such abyss moment:

One year from then.

A tale of two poems. And two lives of me.

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