Number 8

Life's everyday encounters can be described by simply using the number 8,

When I  first learned how to right the number 8, I thought that I could just put together two 0s on the top of each other and I would be done,

I mean how hard could it be, 

just go around the first zero and then put another one right beneath it.

But my teacher at the time told me "That's not how it goes honey"

Then she took my hand and went through the process of producing my first perfect 8.

At first we went smoothly down creating a con caved curve,

then gently, that curve formed another curve at the bottom,

then another smooth line slid to the top closing up the 8.

I thought to myself, 

how can a single number have so many curves and twists, 

and why couldn't I just do it the way that I thought was easy?

But now that I'm older and always thinking in metaphors,

I realized that 8 might as well be the number of life.

When you begin this wonderful journey you start high with high hopes and dreams,

and then you slowly start fall into the pit of despair because of some stressor that entered into your once perfect swing into life.

 Your Low now.

Then you realize that this feeling of loss can not last forever,
so you get back on it and go on with your journey,
getting back up is a bit hard for you since you have to
go through a steep turn.
But you do it anyways.
Your High again.

Now your fully balanced since you know both how to be in your highs and your lows,

But if you turn the 8 clockwise you produce the famous infinity sign.

Showing that once you master the infinite art of falling and getting back again,

then you now graduate into the infinite possibilities of Life,

and all that it has for you. 

You may fall.brake, weep, laugh, smile but you will 

always,

always 

know the infinitesimal growth that your are,

and will forever go through.

Living is Growing everyday.