Above Par

This time last year I was saying ‘So Long 2010‘ with an air of the unknown and a wariness of the uncertain.

Life had changed rather dramatically and – as alive as I felt, as invigorating the sense of endless possibility was – I didn’t know what would happen next. And, truth be told, I continued not knowing for most of the year.

Today however? I am above par.

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Imagine tumbling through darkness:

You’ve slipped from a mountainside and a blizzard roars up and around as you desperately flail and fall through the cold, black nothing.

In that never-ending gloom, in that deafening storm, peaceful acceptance eventually takes over and calm reigns throughout.

Do you feel it?

The ground is far, far away. The air on your face is a blanket of ice smothering your face as it burns… Yet it somehow refreshes; filling your lungs forcefully as further still you cascade through the bleak unknown.

In that tranquil nothingness, thoughts spark and race through your mind, freshly cut to rage, rage against the dying of the light. Upwards, around you, chinks  of sunlight break through and, in that moment, in that quiet deathly moment, your hands shoot out and cling and claw – like grappling hooks – at the rocks around.

You catch one, two.. three… and pull.

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My light has shone, my hooks have been launched and at last I’m climbing.
Better yet, I’m climbing higher than I’ve ever been before.

And the view is breathtaking.

The Alps - Sept 3rd

Happy New Year friends and readers, I wish you all the very best for 2012 and everything wonderful that it brings.

As a certain chap said to me recently: it’s going to be epic.

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Author: James Whatley

Chief Strategy Officer in adland. I got ❤️ for writing, gaming, and figuring stuff out. I'm @whatleydude pretty much everywhere that matters. Nice to meet you x

5 thoughts on “Above Par”

  1. Nice post James , glad you’re on the up and hope you have an exciting and successful 2012 🙂

    whatleydude Reply:

    Thanks Stephen. 2012 is going to be BIG 🙂

  2. After a somewhat strange 2011 (there was good, there was bad) I found my very own rock to cling to in the last few weeks of it. Rather, she found me. She came tumbling down the side of the Twitter mountain, grabbed me from the side and started hauling me up the guy rope with all her might. We’re nearly at the top.
    Isn’t it great when someone unexpectedly comes along like that? However, i’m somewhat aggrieved she never took me on the last minute trip to New York with her boy. Oh well. That’ll be added to my list for this year then. 2012 will be mine…

    Happy new year 🙂

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