A positive update:
grateful thanks to all in this community for sending your healing thoughts and energy towards my baby niece.
She is finally home from NICU, and cocooned by love within her family.
A long road ahead to travel, but signs are hopeful and for now we breathe more easily.
Your water theme brought to mind this poem.
It seems apt, then, as a small offering from me to you x
Fear
It is said that before entering the sea
a river trembles with fear.
She looks back at the path she has traveled,
from the peaks of the mountains,
the long winding road crossing forests and villages.
And in front of her,
she sees an ocean so vast,
that to enter
there seems nothing more than to disappear forever.
But there is no other way.
The river can not go back.
Nobody can go back.
To go back is impossible in existence.
The river needs to take the risk
of entering the ocean
because only then will fear disappear,
because that’s where the river will know
it’s not about disappearing into the ocean,
but of becoming the ocean.