I found this balancing act on the top of a tree, where a sunbird was engaged in its grooming at dawn. In case it slipped from the edge, it did not matter as its second nature is to fly back to safety.
To be at the edge is risky, because it is the interface between safety and danger.
One experience I had yesterday was the helplessness a family felt because their son was told to find a new school because he was disruptive in the class. For the family it was an experience of being at a risky edge when they thought about the future of their son.
But the edge also can symbolise the opposite. When they searched for options for their son, they found a school which was activity based, which seemed to suit their son better. Had they not been forced to leave the school this opening would not have come up.
The edge between the water and sea shore often has shells, corals and other collections from the sea bed. The souvenier collectors often look at the edge for their collections.
It is a balancing act to be at the edge because it is an interface after all!
There is uncertainty at the edge, but it can be a place of discovering new experiences and hidden resilience within!
The edge cannot be frightening although it is unsettling if one has to function always from the edge.
Often the edge is like a new dawn! The sunbird seemed to at ease being at the edge!
M.C.Mathew(text and photo)
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