The Miracle

Sometimes when you feel bad the best you can do is put one foot in front of the other and count it as a victory and let that small little victory lead to a little bigger one. The world often doesn’t see you the way you see the world. The world won’t see you hurt if you keep putting up small victories. Even if that’s only one foot in front of the other.
Sometimes you may climb out of bed and think I don’t think I can do it. But you laugh knowing you’ve felt that way before. And you put one foot in front. And you look for those little miracles along the way. That squirrel on the line catching Pedley’s eye. The way her fur rises on her shoulders as she turns to attention.
The commute, earbuds with Above and Beyond, that’s something, that drop after meandering through an electronic corridor, then a slow rise, getting faster with one door opening after another into brighter colours.
Into work, like so many, but it’s not just a job, it’s to help others with the same hollowness that was nagging you earlier. It’s the realization we are so alike and different. Things are both terrifying and beautiful. And you put another foot forward and you count another victory and you hold a hand out and pull another like you up. And you put another foot forward. Soon the slow days, the hard days and the good days all become miracles.

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    mountaincoward

    That’s a gorgeous photo – have you edited it or was it really those colours?

    I’m still struggling to put one foot in front of the other this year – my chest is quite a bit better for a while but now my back has gone! 😦

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      underswansea

      Hi Carol, sorry to hear your back has started to act up. The photo is a double exposure that I somehow got. I don’t know how part of it ended up kind of ghostly. I wish I knew how I did it so I could try it again. Maybe it was just a glitch inside the camera. The colours always seem more vibrant then our eye can see due to the long exposure.

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        mountaincoward

        Did you get a double exposure on a digi-camera? If so, I’ve no idea how it did it! My film camera has jammed before now for a frame and given me a double exposure – as did my mother’s Zenith sometimes, but I’m not sure how it’s possible for a digital camera! It made for a beautiful photo anyway

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        underswansea

        It was on a digital camera. You can set a digital camera to take double exposures. But I never do that. I remember taking double exposures on film cameras. I have no idea how this one was done. Very strange. Glad you like it.

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