Tightrope

As I was sitting in meditation this morning the vision of Karl Wallenda kept popping up. I was curious, one scene had him on the rope between the World Trade Center towers another one performing with his family doing the famous human pyramid. I was wondering what the person on the top of the pyramid was feeling like. Were they nervous, confident,relaxed? Then I wondered if we/me feel like that at any given moment. The knowledge that the whole thing could collapse and there is nothing I could do about it. Which I think is the way life is anyways, it can all change in a moment and we can do nothing at all to change the event.
I also had the picture of when Karl fell from the wire in Miami, he crashed onto a car and was dead. I recall he was something like 80 years old when that happened, he died doing what he loved.
There are so many moments in one life that we do not even see until later in out years, maybe it is better that way, maybe I would be overwhelmed if I got it with it in the moment, all the ramifications of any event, from meeting a new friend, to taking a step towards one dream, take the step anyways!