Defying Gravity

Why is gravity necessary?

Why does all matter have to be under the glaring rule of this brutal taskmaster?

Could gravity be the impetus that ignites the cycle of life?

Up, or out, we go, until that certain point, where gravity overtakes us and back down we fall, until we’re pushing up again…daisies, that is.

Gravity can be a real “fun thief.”

Perhaps if I were the one to have authored the masterpiece that’s our universe, I might have left gravity off the canvas.

Wouldn’t that be cool?

Things would be so much easier.

We would never have to fear looking down.

Yet, thankfully to us all, I didn’t have that privilege, so I guess we’ll just have to be satisfied living under the rules of the one that did…

He, she or it thought gravity was a good idea, so who am I to argue?

I guess when you step back and look at the big picture, it’s a necessary component of a matter-full life.

Defying gravity becomes our life-ly chore.

Because of gravity we have to remind ourselves, while ascending to higher levels of human experience, not to look down.

If you do, you might just find yourself hurling wildly and uncontrollably back to the place from whence you began…and the impact can be devastating!

We vow not to allow gravity to detain or derail us.

We strain and strive for that illusive summit, even if it’s only a foggy illusion on the present rocky crag of our mediocre life.

Watch out because from up there things fall!

Is there someone or thing up there that doesn’t want me to reach my goal?

Is this all a big joke to the one hurling rocks down upon my dreary head?

Or are they reminders that I need to be cautious as I climb?

And isn’t it generally true that the more difficult the climb, the sweeter the finish?

Yet the end looks so much like the beginning…

So goes the cycle of life…

Forever ready to greet the next climber.

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