Suspended

Twenty-seven centuries ago, a man barely out of his teens embarked on a quest to learn about his father, who had gone missing after fighting a lengthy war.

The youth’s family had been upended (and their fate suspended) by the conflict and by unforgiving gods for so long that his longing for answers led him to sail into open sea, where “as the sail bellied out with the wind, the ship flew through the deep blue water, and the foam hissed against her bows as she sped onward.” *

At times, as they did Telemachus, the circumstances we encounter in our lives compel us to act, to seek, to leave. Sometimes, however, to make full sense (0.33) of our human condition, the more profoundly impactful decision left to us is to stay suspended – and allow optimism to show us how we can make room for the possible, without finishing the sentence.

* (Odyssey, Book III)