Feeling your way, finding your rhythm takes time when you are facing something new. We have to propel our way forward, get some movement going, as well as maintain balance and direction. So many things can go wrong: too deep, not deeply enough, steer right to head left and left to head right…instructions can be so confusing.
We lose patience and want to understand how to be exact in what we are doing…especially if there is an audience: people are watching…expecting us to fall into the murky waters below that await the inexperienced.
The lesson I experienced whilst punting in Oxford, England is that friends and even people you don’t know are willing to support your efforts to learn and help you push away from collision when they see it coming…and that, yes, it’s okay if it takes time to gain momentum. Try in spite of the possibilities of not winning or not succeeding – imagine not making the effort at all. We may remain ‘safe’ but no action at all…gets us?
Venture out, take a chance … go on, you can do it!
