Bend.
On Sunday evening the Barefoot man and I were in the car on the way to watch “The King’s Speech”, (highly recommended, as I’m sure you’ve heard) when I happened to look up at the streetlamp hanging high above us at the intersection and noticed that it was actually moving in a wide arc above us as the wind pummeled it around. It’s always a bit disconcerting to find that things that you thought were pretty stable are actually quite mobile, so I commented on it to my Barefoot man who said wisely, as he is wont to do, “Well, its better to bend than to break.”
Indeed.
A lesson I learnt when I decided to leave corporate life instead of hit the wall – quite a good decision so far, I think.
And it happened again recently on my first multi-day hiking experience.