By design? Or do you not even know how you got to this place? Were you walking along, minding your own business and suddenly there is a drop off in front of you? Do you believe you are living ‘on the edge’? And how do you feel about this? I think I’ve gotten ahead of myself… first, how do you define ‘on the edge’? This point is critical because how you define is special to you. What may be on the edge for you may be perfectly safe to me or vice versa. Second are feelings. How you feel about where you are is the second critical point because often it is your feelings that dictate how you react to where you find yourself… and what you do next.
Do you not really understand how you got to this place? Or did you see it coming? In the world of ‘now what’, do you have a plan? And perhaps most critical is… how much time do you have to remove yourself from the edge? If the situation is somewhat ‘dangerous’ then how you got there is definitely to be considered at some point or you may repeat. How to change directions is preeminent in the thinking at this point. However, don’t lose the opportunity to learn from this situation.
When you are on your journeys, ‘on the edge’ times can occur and, sometimes due to no fault of your own – not the point though. However what you do with this situation is very personal. What do you do first: look around to see if others are watching how you handle this? Peak over the edge? (This would be important if you think going over the edge is your only option.) Discover if there is a way around this precipice? Precipices are very much like obstacles in your path – you can’t avoid them when you are facing them… you have to deal with them.
… on the edge issues and how we respond is another character issue. Actually, how we respond to both the good and difficult are all character issues. Our attitude is fundamental to resolution and second is what we focus on because we need to be able to see what we need to do and we can’t if we have the wrong mindset. What we want to do is to remove ourselves as quickly as possible from harm but we can’t do this at the expense of putting someone else in harm’s way. Resolution is always available but it will depend on how we approach it. Never easy… but whoever said being alive was easy?
… but, what do you think?
