Ode to Flexibility

 


12 February 2021

Ode to Flexibility


Is it our main joy for each day that we awake

Having planned everything we will do that day,

What and when we will eat, who we will meet,

And with time blocked out for exercise, fun and play?


We are confident that we know all that will happen

And we have carefully limited the risks we will face,

And that each evening we can happily head to bed

With the coming day planned in detail, just in case.


Do we ever consider that we do pay a large price

For so diligently seeking safety, security and peace of mind,

Are we forgetting the complexity and unpredictability of life,

When we force it to fit whatever mould that we find?


Would it be better to just to let life unfold as it will

And to rejoice when our plans suddenly change, as they do,

Thus reminding us that our entangled, interacting world

Can provide more delight and marvels than we ever knew?


Sure, there are many risks involved by living so freely,

But we must remember that today is a great day to die,

Especially if we have lived our lives with joy to the full,

And can accept that some day we must all say good bye.


For the greatest challenge and delight in life

Is to celebrate fully that we simply don’t know

And that trying to understand the mysteries of life

Just makes it hard to just go with the flow.


If we live flexibly, we may not live as long as we might

If we constantly worry about keeping safe and secure.

But the rewards of being open to the many possibilities each day,

And living with joy, wonder, and awe, will repay any loss of time, I am sure.


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