“The heaviest of burdens crushes us, we sink beneath it, it pins us to the ground. But in love poetry of every age, the woman longs to be weighed down by the man’s body. The heaviest of burdens is therefore simultaneously an image of life’s most intense fulfillment. The heavier the burden, the closer our lives come to the earth, the more real and truthful they become. Conversely, the absolute absence of burden causes man to be lighter than air, to soar into heights, take leave of the earth and his earthly being, and become only half real, his movements as free as they are insignificant.
What then shall we choose? Weight or lightness?”
~ Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
~ Photo: The Approach (by Micah Boy)
In the space between yes and no, there’s a lifetime.
It’s the difference between the path you walk and the one you leave behind;
it’s the gap between who you thought you could be and who you really are;
it’s the legroom for the lies you’ll tell yourself in the future.
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Your perspective is your choice.
“From now on we live in a world where man has walked on the moon.
It’s not a miracle, we just decided to go.”
~ Tom Hanks
