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Login/Join to ParticipateClique Infiltrator, Cunning Linguist and Master Debator
4,219 posts
Location: Edinburgh burgh burrrrrr, United Kingdom
Just wondering if any of you lot have taken any leaps of faith, any chances in life, anything that has or would have changed your life, for better or worse.
I'm asking because I'm planning to, but more on that later
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3,764 posts
Location: limbo, Australia
wow, sunbird... you are waxing sentimental... poetic, indeed...
well done for taking the leap, tinkle!! I've followed this thread thus far, without participating, cos I've been crap @ taking leaps of faith myself... a lil bit of inspiration never goes astray...
sparkler? yes, please... this place (work) could use a bit of livening up...
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veteran
1,228 posts
Location: on the wrong planet, United Kingdom
Not so much a leap as choosing a different and unknown path, and having the faith to see it to it's conclusion.
Spent far too long trying to change myself to fit in socially and develop relationships with others, when that's just something that isn't possible for me. I've got to accept that some things are for a different kind of person, and that I should accept isolation and the gifts that it has given me. I cannot leave this state as it's fundamental to who I am, so I'm just going to leave it to chance whether anyone will join me in isolation, instead of me trying to leave, which has been destroying me.
You aren't thinking or really existing unless you're willing to risk even your own sanity in the judgment of your existence.
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The last two year of travelling have taught me some very important lessons, but the one i find most empowering is the fact that i now know i can do anything, i can excell at whatever i want and i know i will be ok.
Take that leap of faith or just the leap and if you sink you will learn and if you swim you swim, it all turns out ok in the wash if you look at it in the right perspective.
1 + 1 = 3
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Location: Bristol UK
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and LTC- so happy for you too! I thought you two were perfect from day one.
Woah!! Who are you? Did I meet you?
Empty your mind. Be formless, Shapeless, like Water.
Put Water into a cup, it becomes the cup, put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle, put water into a teapot, it becomes the teapot.
Water can flow, or it can Crash.
Be Water My Friend.
veteran
1,247 posts
Location: lost, Canada
hee hee I am not telling...lol
but there were a few private bets being made at Play
"God *was* my co-pilot, but then we crashed, and I had to eat him..."
1 + 1 = 3
3,540 posts
Location: Bristol UK
Andrea!! alleries give all away...
Private bets?!
Empty your mind. Be formless, Shapeless, like Water.
Put Water into a cup, it becomes the cup, put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle, put water into a teapot, it becomes the teapot.
Water can flow, or it can Crash.
Be Water My Friend.
veteran
1,237 posts
Location: Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
87wt2gxq7 are you going to Falmouth? It'd be nice to see you again, and you should totally do an alexander technique workshop
just read a tiny bit about it, I'm really interested. Blinded by Hyperlights, please donate generously 
what goes around comes around. unless you're into stalls.
4,030 posts
Location: Bali, Australia
YES heaps of times; one involved taking my 2 year old to India to be with his dad... 6 months later he died... if Ihadn;t done it I would have spent my life regretting it.
This whole trip of mine to Europe has been another.. done on borrowed money, abandoning my house and daughter.. who I sent herself last year on a similar leap. I trusted my 14 year old daughter to be able to travel... now I trust her to look after the house. My leap of faith.. her great experience. And now we all feel so much free-er.
Once these possibilities are calling, you're already on your way...
oooh reminds me of a great bit of writing by Rilke, I'll dig it up..
.....Can't juggle balls but I sure as hell can juggle details....
what goes around comes around. unless you're into stalls.
4,030 posts
Location: Bali, Australia
It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living. Because we are alone with the unfamiliar presence that has entered us; because everything we trust and are used to is for a moment taken away from us; because we stand in the midst of a transition where we cannot remain standing. That is why the sadness passes: the new presence inside us, the presence that has been added, has entered our heart, has gone into its innermost chamber and is no longer even there, - is already in our bloodstream. And we don't know what it was. We could easily be made to believe that nothing happened, and yet we have changed, as a house that a guest has entered changes. We can't say who has come, perhaps we will never know, but many signs indicate that the future enters us in this way in order to be transformed in us, long before it happens.
From Letter to a Young Poet, by Rainer Maria Rilke
.....Can't juggle balls but I sure as hell can juggle details....
898 posts
Location: Binstead, Isle of Wight
Oh yes, I'm a leaper. When I was hitchhkiking around the world (leap in itself) and was offered a lift on a yacht accross the Atlantic from South Africa to Brazil, I didn't hesitate long. Even if my plans were going to East Africa, five days later, I was on that yacht!
Ask a question and be a fool for a minute...don't ask and be a fool your whole life.
Carpal \'Tunnel
3,384 posts
Location: mancunian, United Kingdom
ticklepants, i hope evrything works out better than you plan!im currently in the basic initial stages of a change
but im hoping if all works out then this time next year itll all be done! cant say much more than that 87wt2gxq7 did i meet you while drinking tea at play? i think it was the last day...?
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4,696 posts
Location: home of the tiney toothy bear, Australia
last saturday i was running along an uneven wall, took a leap and sprained my ankle. does that count?
"but have you considered there is more to life than your eyelids?"
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lovin' it...
2,444 posts
Location: Bristol!, United Kingdom
leaps of faith are great Scary as hell to begin with, but lukily mine has worked out really well leaving London was the scariest thing I've done in a long time, but I'm so happy to have followed it through. 2 days before I due to leave I had some serious doubts
better to try and it not work out, than never change things and deal with the "what ifs"
Good luck Tink in Edinburgh - really hope it all works out for you.
Live well, love much, laugh often...
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Carpal \'Tunnel
3,384 posts
Location: mancunian, United Kingdom
ah i know you!
wow theres some wicked pics on there!
sorry
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Its Wet and Cold
120 posts
Location: Somewhere far,far away......, Scotland (UK)
Everyone has done so well with their leaps of faith.
Tinkle - You will love Edinburgh, I lived there for 15 months and loved every minute of it. It is a very beautiful city.
Oh Slothy. I may have been bad. I may have kept you chained up in that room but it was for your own good
Either I have a monster in my kitchen or I'm completely crazy
old hand
722 posts
Location: United Kingdom
To dance on the edge of a cliff over the unknown is a truly brave thing, allowing fate/god/gods to guide your steps to safety while you simply enjoy the bliss of life is a truly beautiful thing, holding faith that even if things go wrong, you will remain yourself is a truly powerful thing to be able to do
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big and good and broken
7,330 posts
Location: lunn dunn, yoo kay, United Kingdom
sunbird - unless you post something normal soon, we're gonna have to start referring to you as yoda's soppy-ass cousin
hold on, now i'm totally confused: how come you've gone and deleted just about all the normal stuff you posted up till now?!
happy it seems to be working out for ya tink
cole. x
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i come to 'dis cafe quite a lot myself.
they do porridge."
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I hate change- I used to have to be dragged backwards screaming by circumstances to change any thing. Recently though i have been working on just going for things and not worrying so much, and somethings don't work but more than half of the things I have tried do, and hey if it doesn't work you just jump someplace else. Its taken me to Thailand and India and I don't regret any of it. essentially yes if it seems right then go for it!
old hand
722 posts
Location: United Kingdom
Hmmmm, Normal stuff gone you say? Normal's not the Jedi way! Rid yourself of past you must!
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