Other views on ledge hanging

Ledge hangers… These are the people we think, “society” thinks of as crazy, lazy… and some look upon them with disdain. But they are the ones that are, like the ‘crazy’ among us, truly free. They saw all this for what it was; they looked at the angles and realized they wanted no part of this… it was a sucker’s game. I think we all come to that point, where we have to decide which we will be. It can be a painful process, a “mental breakdown” a “middle age crisis,” and we’re faced with one of the most important decisions we can make, do we suck it up and continue that climb or let go and chill. Or did we already close our minds to the possibilities? It takes a certain amount of strength to be a ledge hanger, to break away from the fold, and strike out on your own… free to think and observe, mentally and spiritually free.

I could go on. My father was a ledge hanger and his father-in-law; my grandfather was a ledge hanger, my grandfather’s daughter; my mother is a ledge hanger, and if I’m not, I’m one in waiting. I survive the breakdown only to return to the climb, now I’m stretching to grab hold of that ledge, once and for all.

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