Life comes at you in stages – A Tahoe Poem

Life comes at you in stages.

First, there’s hesitation. You stand on the edge, unsure if you’re ready. Everything in you wants comfort, but something deeper wants change.

Then comes the shock. You leap and life grabs you. It stings. It scrambles your breath and shakes your sense of control. This is where most people turn back.

But if you stay…
If you breathe through the fear…
You find surrender. The chaos softens. You stop resisting, and in that stillness, something shifts.

You begin to see clearly. Feel fully.
You are no longer surviving, you are witnessing.
Present. Alive. Awake.

And when you rise from it all,
Changed, trembling, real,
You remember:
You didn’t fall into this.
You chose it.