Haiku: Embrace The Change

Sometimes when I am lost in thought, I wish time would come to a standstill, allow me to stop and catch my breath. I feel like sometimes the world is on fast forward, speeding away like a runaway train, with me running to catch up but falling behind getting lost instead.  

Life throws us hurdles and its our job to be resilliant enough to overcome them, to leap over them and embrace the challenge ahead.

“If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.” - Martin Luther King

 Recently, I received the news that I would not be able to complete my degree due to an exam that i just could not pass after attempting it four times. Naturally, I was disappointed, I felt like I had let myself down, despite how hard I had worked. For a while, I let those feelings fill me up inside, convince me that I was a failure and that there was nothing I could do now to change that. That I had let everyone down.
I was wrong.

I think we all get that moment of clarity after a while, that little voice in your head shouting back, arguing with yourself and willing you to believe that you are enough, you are not a failure, life just has a different path for you to take. So I dusted myself down, had a cup of tea (well I am British after all) and focused on the positivity that surrounds me every day.

Embrace the change that life throws at you, no matter what that may be.
Don't be afraid to walk along undiscovered footpaths and snickets once in a while because sometimes you need to lose yourself to find yourself again.

As a lover of all things writing, I thought I would try my hand at a style of poem that I have never tried before; a haiku. The message behind the haiku is simply that you never know where life is going to take you so just go with it, similar to a dandelion seed floating on the breeze.

Keep smiling

Joanna