When the Wind Changes

Surprisingly regularly I have a conversation with someone who quietly admits they’re standing between two possible lives. One is familiar, steady, and pays the bills. The other feels truer, but also riskier, as if stepping toward it might loosen something they’ve held tight for years.

The amazing novel 'The Kite Runner' describes why loosening your grip can help a kite fly higher and freer. The real courage isn’t in controlling the kite, but in facing what is tugging inside you. It is counter-intuitive: you’d think holding tighter gives you control, but it’s the release that lets the kite catch the wind.

Standing between the steady and the true, the challenge might be working out which thread in your hand is fear and which is freedom. Letting go of the correct thread, sensing the lift, easing your hold just enough, and trusting the air to do its work.

• what might you need to loosen — gently, intentionally — to let the truer path rise?

• what would you notice if you stopped tugging and simply felt the wind?

• how will you know when it’s time to let out more line?