“Jump!”, he said.  “Will you catch my fall?”, you asked.  “Yes,” he assured.  You then jumped… and while suspended on air, you sensed a cloud of doubt.  As you wonder if he’d break your fall, your bum had already landed on the ground with a big, booming “thud”!  (That’s what you get when you let fear take over.)  And he said, “Oh, sorry, baby, I was looking the other way I missed your fall!  Will you do that again?”  You then  got up, dusted yourself off, checked for missing or broken parts… Okay, everything’s intact… nothing broken that can’t be mended.  Crushed… but you’re still in one piece, your perky cells would regenerate.  And you climbed back — way, way, way up — higher than the last jump…

And you leapt again!  Taking the plunge head-first.  Suspended on air, you sensed an utter calmness — wrapping your whole being with tremendous peace and quiet.  You took the leap… of faith… in yourself, not solely in the other.  Believing without a doubt, you’ll be all right.  What, with a bungee cord securely fastened around your ankles, extending all the way from the peak of the pole where you leapt from?  No, you’ll be just fine.  There’s something with bungee jumping… something magical.  If only the one who egged you on to jump would just find faith in himself…  find it in his heart that he’s worth the pain, the risk, the wait… the love… all worth taking the leap with.

It just needs courage to leap into the unknown.  You’ll have no way of knowing what dangers lurk beyond… until you’re in the midst of it.  You just trust that you read your inner navigator right… and forge straight ahead.  It’s sort of engaging someone on a handshake…  you make sure the web of your hand touches the web of his hand, you make eye contact.  When you touched webs you build trust, that was Philippe D on today’s paper said.  Very few people find the courage to reach that far.  Those who dare, run the risk of having bruised egos and wounded heart.        When you don’t see in front of you, the person whom you want to build trust with and cement a relationship with, you rely on all aspects of being… mental, emotional, psychological, and foremost — spiritual, minus the physical.  In lieu of looking eye to eye, you speak heart to heart.  You listen to each other’s voice in written words, in absence of the speaking voice.  You connect.  You forge ties.  You build trust and respect.  You form a friendship.

New elements can come to strain the ties, and even break weak ones.  You don’t let that get into you… because you have faith. 

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