Things in my life have been up in the air quite often over the past few years. It’s a weird feeling, a combination of excitement and fear, probably much like the feeling one gets before jumping out of a plane or off of a cliff. Up in the air happens when a change is made. It’s the period of transition before things settle back into place. It is a moment when you picture your life in a freeze frame, and you’re looking up toward the sky, waiting to see how things fall. Chances are we don’t know exactly how they’re going to end up once they come to rest. In most cases, we don’t even have control over all of the factors that affect change. It’s that lack of control that causes both the excitement and the fear.
The way I see it, there are two ways to look at any ‘up in the air’ time in your life. You can take a deep breath and jump. Trust in fate, or a Higher Power, or whatever, and just see what happens. Take things as they come, even if they don’t end up the way you wanted. The other choice, is to worry your ass off. Keep your eyes affixed to the sky, and watch in fear as things begin to fall. Then, freak out if something goes the wrong way. These are obviously the two extremes, and there are of course multitudnous other possible reactions. But, they’re usually a hybrid of the two.
Having things ‘up in the air’ is one of those situations where the anticipation usually ends up being worse than the reality. But, I”ll be honest, some of my ‘up in the air’ situations have not ended that well. The outcomes haven’t always been the happiest. But here’s what you have to remember, when things finally fall, that’s where they’re going to be until the next up in the air moment, so you might as well make the most of the situation. Find the silver lining in the cloud, make something good out of a bad situation. Don’t sit and stew and wish things were different. That won’t get you anywhere. As scary as it can be dangling in mid-air, it can also be exhilarating. So, take it all in.
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