Caught in the Current

I remember a morning in the high country when the wind decided to turn the world upside down. I was sitting on a stone wall, watching a girl no older than six trying to cross a field. She wasn’t walking so much as she was being carried by the air, her coat flapping like a sail, her feet barely finding purchase on the uneven earth. She didn’t look scared. She looked like she was in on a secret, laughing into the gale as if the wind were an old friend trying to push her toward some hidden destination. It’s a strange thing, how we spend our adult lives trying to stand firm against the invisible forces that buffet us, while children seem to understand that the best way to handle a storm is to lean into it, to let the chaos take the lead for a while. We are so afraid of losing our balance that we forget the joy of being moved by something larger than ourselves. What would happen if we stopped fighting the gusts?

Keyvan Kiani Servak has captured this exact feeling of surrender in the image titled Wind Dance. It is a beautiful reminder that sometimes the most graceful way to move through life is to let the wind decide the direction. Does this image make you want to run into the breeze?