"I think you can only hold out for so long. I think secretly each and everyone of us longs to fall, and knows in a deep wise place in our brains that surrender is the means by which we gain, not lose, our lives. We know this, and that is why we have bad backs and pulled necks and throbbing pain between our shoulder blades. We want to go down, and it hurts to fight the force of gravity."
from Lying [A Metaphorical Memoir]
by Lauren Slater
Let yourself fall, gently.
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