What it's like on the top of the world!

The top of the world. To a girl like myself, the top of the world isn't so much a place as it is a state of mind.

We don't always know how we quite got to the top, but we just sorted showed up, either we got there so fast we can't remember how we arrived or we were distracted during the whole journey. The only problem about being so high is looking down, you know you shouldn't have looked down, because now all you can think of is how you'll fall. It haunts your dreams, you become paranoid, and before you know it... the top of the world seems so far away. The one thing you were scared of, not being so high and happy, is the fear that brought you down to reality. You forget the dream and life becomes its own nightmare.

So how can we stay on top of the world but still be aware of the fall? It's all apart of becoming wise. Seeing the world as the messed up place it is, keep priorities straight, but some times about remembering to look at the sky. The sky, to me, brings me a sort of comfort. It symbolizes the fact that there are opportunities, that the worst will shape up to something beautiful. The world will eat us alive. Just like if you don't swim to the top of the water with your head up, you will drown. If you don't look up to the sky and a better outcome, the world will suffocate you.

I've been on top of the world. And I'm not alone up there :) But when he feels his world is crashing I come back down to Earth. And I try what I can to help him remember what the sky looks like. If he doesn't see it, I simply stay with him. It's all I can do. He's had nightmares, like people do, but I found myself having to wake him up to the wonderful dream he was in and that his nightmare was just a bad reality. Sometimes that's how we should live life: Waking up to a dream and falling asleep to reality, just so we can look forward to waking up again.