In the A to Z of Becoming, part 2, J is for Jump!
I bet you wish that life just flowed like a free flowing river, continuous, unbroken and mostly calm.
But the universe isn’t like that. Change is continuous but it occurs in jumps.
At the subatomic level this is described by quantum physics – the quantum is the jump.
At the evolutionary level we see it as a series of leaps, not a smooth transition.
If you’ve ever watched a small child develop you’ll know they do it in leaps. One day they can’t stand by themselves. Then they can. One day they can’t walk. Then they can. One day they can’t say any words. Then they can. Some changes stutter a bit, so toilet training might not be so complete from one to the next, but soon it is.
Our lives are like that. To embrace change, we have to leap. We can do our best to plan, to try to see ahead, but, ultimately we can’t see the future and we have to decide. We have to jump. It’s often scary. It’s sometimes way to scary to make the jump, but that will never be the end of it, we will soon find we’re asked again to jump.
So, are you ready to embrace the way the universe works, and jump?
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