“If you aren’t in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?” — T.S. Eliot
What if you were a 7 foot tall kid that never left your parents’ basement? What if you were so afraid of your own HUGE shadow that you hid from the sunlight forever?
Perhaps someday a really short kid, in a town of really short kids, stumbles downstairs into your basement. She somehow convinces you to come up with her into the world.
Once you’re up in the world she shows you how to help rescue that cat that’s been stuck in a tree for way too long. She takes you to the library to show you the books on the top shelf that she and her friends have been dying to read, just could never reach. She introduces you to the basketball coach, whose team has never won a game.
Who knows how tall we are or what we are capable of until we throw ourselves in the water or into the sunlight?
You all have it in you… We need to hear it! Let’s add some truth, some beauty, and grow taller together!
I’d like to think when someone first feels the daylight it sounds and feels like this: