For various reasons: the sun was out, I haven’t been walking
regularly in quite some time, my younger son has the flu, I just had a bad cold
and really, really need to ramp up the health care, I decided to take a walk
yesterday (and again today).
Decided to start small with just a flat walk and only a half
an hour.
It was the end of the day and as I walked along one of the
roads I noticed my shadow – a very, very long shadow stretching meters across
the fields.
I reflected upon the phrase “to cast a long shadow”.
If “cast a shadow” has a negative connotation, “to cast a
long shadow” doesn’t always:
simply the notion of someone or something having a great or
long-standing influence.
Positive examples could be Florence Nightingale, Nelson
Mandela, Gandhi, etc.
Then I related this notion to people: when we are small, our
shadows are also small, as they are in the morning. At noon, or the height of
our lives, the shadow is non-existent (does that mean that we are at our most
egotistical?), but late in the day – or late in our lives – our shadows extend
way across the fields. It gave me pause for thought: may my personal shadow be
one that extends good, one that bears only positivity and love.
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