Walking On The Wall

Blood is rushing to the right side of my body. I wait…nervous yet curious as to what I will experience in the next few minutes. I get the ok signal. I take a deep breath and allow my mind to clear. I close my eyes and take my first step onto what I must allow my mind to believe is the ground. Cold, alone, and afraid, I continue to walk in who knows what direction I am going. Visibility is zero and mobility is limited. All I can do at this point is to trust my limbs to guide the way. One step at a time, I slowly continue my journey. “How close am I?” I think to myself as my body screams at me to surrender to gravity. I refuse to let gravity defeat me. I keep walking…Suddenly I begin to feel the ground vibrate. Something is coming. A few moments later, I hear light shuffling of feet. It is getting closer, louder…then silence. I feel a warmth behind me. My heart pounding and my limbs shaking, I inch back, slowly, hoping that whatever it is, it is just another being like myself, blind, and lost in this vast area of emptiness trying to find a way back to reality. “Hello?” I call out hesitantly hoping that whoever or whatever it is can hear me. Silence… My verbal efforts are worthless. I have forgotten the fact that I have been deprived of my sense of hearing. Nonetheless, my attempt at communication has not completely failed me. I reach out my arms and wait until I feel another set of arms alongside my own. Together we glide a few steps back, then glide another few steps forward. I feel so graceful and buoyant. For the first time in my life, I do not have to worry about being pulled down. I am free…free to walk, free to run, free to dance, and free to jump as I please. Taking one last glide, I let go. Once again, I am cold and alone. I keep walking… I gradually begin to walk faster, taking longer strides. Just as I start to feel a little more confident my body comes to a startling halt. A dead end… “Great…Now where do I go?” Knowing that it is humanly impossible for me to climb a wall with my bare hands and feet, I prepare to throw up the white flag. At that moment I feel a sharp stabbing sensation in my head. I cringe from the recurring piercing pain as I see a quick flash of light followed by an image...An image that I conclude to be a flashback of my few moments I had earlier with my encounter. Then darkness… Confused as to what has just happened, I attempt to get my mind back into focus in the present. Again and again, I struggle to escape from this dreamscape. With each time resulting in a greater pain than the time before, I yell, “Alright I get it!” Exhausted from competing against my own psyche, I conclude that my only option is to keep moving forward. “But how?” I obviously can’t climb it. I pause and try to reflect back on the image that my mind would not allow me to let go. “I guess it was nice while it lasted, being able to free myself momentarily from the barriers that normally ground me.” Silence… In that moment, everything came together in my mind. I discovered that missing piece to the puzzle. That piece I had in my hand the entire time that I just failed to take the time to notice. Without any hesitation, I leap off the ground onto the wall. The wall is now the ground and the ground the wall. This is truly a bizarre sensation. I fear no longer…the ending is near. I walk the final stretch relieved that this will all be over soon. Yet I am dampened by the fact that I may never get the opportunity to free my self like this ever again. As I take my final step out of the imaginary back into reality, I take the time to reflect back on what just occurred in the last ten minutes, which appeared to me as an eternity. I realize that there are times when one must let go and go against the norm in order to overcome certain obstacles. Sometimes the answer is right there already in you. It is just a matter of noticing it, not holding it back, and following through with what you truly believe in no matter what others say or think about you.