On likening love to a tightrope act, coming to put your trust in the rope without the trusty net can be a very difficult task. The normal thing to think of in that situation would probably be, “Is the rope strong enough to support me?” There is always that confidence and trust that u have to build with that rope, going through the drills, practicing, testing, coming to allow the rope to become as much a part of you as an arm or a leg.

But even with that trust u have built with that rope, it is still a major risk to trust yourself and your skills enough to allow the safety net to be removed. For you to walk that tightrope confidence, knowing that u need not worry about falling because that rope won’t break or even twitch. You know that it got you!

Sometimes it is even more difficult because the problem doesn’t always lie with the rope. Sometimes it is YOUR footing that becomes unsure, sometimes u doubt a step or two and you slip and fall. Even with the sureness of the rope, you look at that safety net and think, if this rope were to fuck up now, I need not worry about the fall, ‘cause I know my net got me.

In times like this I can not help but to wonder, had it not been for the safety net in the first place, would you have been more careful? Was the only reason that you doubted the rope in the first place was because you knew that your feet didn’t HAVE to be sure and steady, and your movements didn’t HAVE to calculated and executed to the best of your ability cause you know that there was always something else to rely on.

Is the safety net more detrimental to the act than it is beneficial? Maybe it is time for you to walk out on faith, head high, feet sure and actions clear, Maybe it is time that you finally realize that it is OK to trust the rope, cause if you didn’t trust the rope then you should not be a tightrope walker, maybe your place in this circus that we call life would be better suited for being a clown!