…. as if! What joy? This is hard!!!!! And I feel like prefixing that statement with all form of profanities and untold expletives. Who wants to walk when you can glide? Why put one foot in front of the other when you can skate, do all kind of tricks, rise to such heights? When you can skate on ice, be on a skateboard, have a hoverboard, why would anyone want to walk? You can get to places quicker, freestyling along the way and not to add loose even more weight.
Why would anyone ever want to ride a bicycle without a stabiliser when you can be steadied and stable? When your risk of falling is reduced to almost non existence. Why will a child come out of his walker when he can have support? Why should we get rid of our crutches when we can be supported? When we can lean on, why must me stand on our own? Why must we take responsibility when we can be irresponsible and allow others to sort us out and carter to our needs? Why must we point the finger at self when it is much easier to point at others? Why must we be independent when we can just be dependent and allow others to carry our weight around? Why must we grow and become mature when we can just be immature and allow others to do all our thinking for us? Why must we consider things ourselves and be decisive and get our lives together? Why must we try to be strong, why must we get rid of crutches, our walkers, stabiliers etc and stand or better still, walk?
I did a quick research and there are so many advantages to rollerblading that you will be forgiven for wondering why we even bother walking. The honest truth is that we can’t glide through life with skates on our feet for the rest of our lives, in the same way that we can not hold on tightly to our walkers or crutches if we have any intention of developing those leg muscles. Aspects of life needs to be taken in slowly and solely, on our feet. As much as we would always need people we must learn to steady ourselves, stabilise our ride through life with the invisible enduring stabiliser within. We must learn to first and foremost self sooth, self comfort. In other words, we must learn to walk with our very own feet, to see and manage the world at a pace that is condusive to our soul.
You can do it, one step in front of the other, rid yourself of the glider and enjoy the joy of walking!
Beautiful Ivory 