Across The Street....

   Cindy... 

“A man's own self is his friend. A man's own self is his foe.”

Once we are coherent enough as young-lings to go play unsupervised, our parents teach us the proper way to avoid traffic if we decide to travel to the other side of the road. What is never taught is how to avoid the blindside. Or how to get across that same street when the distance keeps getting farther; when what your traveling to doesn't want you there.

Parents are just big kids carrying on the same haggard traditions that didn't boast well for the generation before them. When so much of the day is spent assuring you're numb to the shit of it, you're teaching also becomes numb. When your parents teaching is false, the sucker punch of truth hurts.

There are going to be people you love on the other side of the street. People who don't love you back. People that act like they do until it becomes inconvenient. Love isn't telling, it's listening. Love isn't talking, it's being. Love isn't weakly stubborn, it's powerfully vulnerable. Love is an agreement of how each individual feels they need to experience the emotion. 

The other side of the street will become unviewable without a telescope. It's not that you don't recognize the background anymore.  It's that you don't recognize you anymore. Experience ages our vision into a misperception of things we used to see so clearly, things one day so close, things one day we thought we knew. The other side of the street just keeps getting farther away, though you never move. 

It's a two-lane road. The other side is right there, and you will tire when trying to get to the other side. It will take everything you have to get half-way. It will send rush hour and traffic police your way. The other side will be right in front of you, and just out of reach. It will be everything you want, and nothing you can have.

None of the streets worth taking the time to cross have a map that shows how to get to them.  Instead, experience is the guide to their shoulder. Streets worth crossing don't have crosswalks and electric signs giving you permission to cross. They demand you figure this out on your own. They entice you by allowing you to see the grass on the other side. They require you know how to get there safely, without help, alone. No more parents, no more false teaching. No more scared generations leading younger generations down the same worn out path.

You're going to lose your ball and run out in front of something bigger than you going faster than you, and in that second you will realize who you are and what you can handle. In that instant you're staring down the pain of change you can decide where you went wrong. Where you crossed without looking. Why you dropped the ball. Self-realization is about as comfortable as self-mutilation....and both leave scars.

Sometimes the only way to cross is to leave the old teachings behind and step off the curb without fear of getting hit. A day may come where crossing looks like death, but staying looks worse than death ever could. You will choose either to stay and suffer a fate worse than death-self-deception, or you will carry the valuable teachings with you and leave the worthless behind.  You will take a chance, run, and get to the other side or get hit. In the end, what's the difference.  Trying and dying is glorious; never trying is never living.

Strength:

Rest

For Score:

10-Pistols

40ft-Lunge

AMRAP 7 Minutes

Rest 1 Minute

5-Swings 55/70

5-Dips

10-Double Unders

AMRAP 7 Minutes

Post reps and rounds to comments.

Comments

[runmelrun]

3 rounds of lunge/pistols
6+15 dips/swings/dus

[vicki]

4rds + 2m
5rds +15m

[Carrie]

3 rounds lunges/pistols (M)
5 rounds+8 dips/swings/du (m)

[jen w]

5+5 for pistols/lunge
3+16 for dips/swings/dus

[k]

9+9 pistols-n-lunges/5+15 dips-kb-dus (everyone ended up on their dips in the last 10secs,no kidding! arrgh)

Catherine...so nice to have you join us like old times. Look forward to seeing more of you when you can make the trip down.

[NP]

5
5

[ASH]

7+10+ about 35ft lunge (urgh!) PS Pregnantpistols are REALLY hard when there's an obstruction in the way!

6 rds (m) modified dips