The View

Picture yourself inside a glass-backed elevator on the ground floor.

As you make your way up to the fourth floor, you take in the design and layout of the interior centered in the building which includes a delightful two-tiered bubbling waterfall, the perfect place to toss a coin and make a wish.

A garden of green highlights the perimeter of the center, giving the atmosphere a fresh sensation of color and lively energy, which is refreshing to behold.

You fully enjoy the view from the bottom up, and you appreciate the beauty as it fills your vision and relaxes you.

Later, while on the ground floor, seated near the center, looking up you notice folks who are navigating the building from inside the glass-sided elevator. Then you realize when you're in the elevator, folks can see you too.

In other words, the view goes both ways. Whether you're in or out.

It's one thing to see what you want to see, but to be seen when you may not want to be seen or when you don't know you're in view can leave you feeling vulnerable and exposed.

But that's what happens when you rise higher in life. On your way up, more people notice you. They see what you're doing. They may recognize your face. They may greet you with a smile and handshake, or they may hang in a corner and avoid your gaze.

You have the choice of allowing the view and opinions of others to keep you from moving up; or you can take in the view that invigorates you and continue to rise higher to richer, more enlightening places.

Now, of course, there's always the possibility of rising too fast.

Picture yourself in a glass-backed elevator going up to the 9th floor. Only this time each successive floor meets you with stomach churning effect. And you know if you look out, you may lose your lunch as a response to your nauseous state.

And you're still aware of others who may see you hiding your face or closing your eyes to minimize the impact.

No, speed is not always the best indicator of where you want to be. Faster is not always better.
It really is all in the timing.

When you pace yourself just a bit out of your comfort zone in order to stretch and grow in a healthy manner, and you're not going so fast that you feel dizzy, then you know the momentum is just right.

And you'll continue to have a beautiful, inspiring view as well as the growing confidence in your inner person that gives you a flourishing grace as you walk into your circumstance or alongside whoever your meet in your life's journey.

So, how high do you plan to go?
Let's aspire to rise higher together, shall we?

Oh, and don't forget to make a wish.

© 2011 by Dawn Herring