The Power of Looking Halfway Down the Stairs
These days, these remarkable days; if asked how I am I say, “I feel like I’m neither here nor there.”
And that’s not half bad.
I’m somewhere in the middle.
Maybe you know what I mean.
There’s not an urgency to try to strive to make up for covid time lost.
If time is speeding up, it feels like we’re spinning into control not out of it.
And it’s not half bad.
Here’s five words I hear daily I never heard so much before:
“It is what it is.”
What is it?
It’s simple.
And nobody could translate simple as powerfully as the great A.A. Milne (Winnie the Pooh’s father).
Halfway Down The Stairs
Halfway down the stairs
Is a stair
Where I sit.
There isn't any
Other stair
Quite like
It.
I'm not at the bottom,
I'm not at the top;
So this is the stair
Where
I always
Stop.
Halfway up the stairs
Isn't up
And it isn't down.
It isn't in the nursery,
It isn't in town.
And all sorts of funny thoughts
Run round my head.
It isn't really
Anywhere!
It's somewhere else
Instead!
Let’s uncover the value of your somewhere else.
Thank you for reading.
© A.A. Milne, Halfway Down the Stairs, from the 1924 collection,When We Were Very Young