Bowling pin

Imagine yourself as that last bowling pin, wobbling after the other nine were already knocked down. The story doesn’t end there. Next round will be a direct hit (or try to nail down a strike). To a single pin, the bowling ball must have looked like an oncoming tornado. The pounding and impact when it hits the runway, the spin and speed. That last pin could have felt shaken to the core.

But if it were a miss, then that last bowling pin got saved, to be recycled for the next play. The gladiator survived to see another day.

Often times, we don’t get singled out to face onslaught, even in worst disaster. It struck good and evil people all the same.

But each person has that “last-bowling-pin moment” when he/she must negotiate within and without to “deal or no deal”, once for all.

Essentially, we do a SWOT analysis on ourselves while the force of opposition is coming head on.

Legs shaken, but position already taken.

Stand your ground. Budge not. We are like a deer facing oncoming headlight, frozen and immobile. We feel fear, numb to the point of being in denial. But if we survived a near miss, then it would be cruising from then on.

Tragedy often comes in pairs e.g. Katrina, and looting, Fukushima and the nuclear power plant accident.

I look for construction activities as indicators of a healthy recovery e.g. street enlargement, a bustling Home Depot etc.. anything.

To tap into the emerging momentum. And be lifted up with it.

Once that greater force you thought would have destroyed you, didn’t, then you are given another shot at life, a new chapter is opened in your life script. Write it well, live it to the fullest and share the bounty with others. Keep saying that  life is too short. The longer you keep at it, the more likely you will be right. After all, you  have seen nine other pins dropped and cleared out-of-the-way. Last pin standing.