A Precarious Dance

Power.

Our electricity and gas here in the Netherlands are both off at the moment.

We are very often dependent upon the power that somebody else controls. On the way here we were caught in bad floods and got a flat tyre on a very long and wet drive south. We needed the power held by the Ferry owners and Green Flag to help us out.

We are dependent even as we strive for independence - the ability to control our own destinies and our own bodies. But we need other people. To help us. And not to take advantage of us.

And yet we don’t, or can’t, always trust that that will happen. Or not happen. Yet the power dance has somehow got us, as human beings, through to where we are today. It is A Precarious Dance, and it often causes us to feel, and indeed be, very vulnerable.

The only thing, the ONLY thing, that makes it work in the long run, is the kindness, empathy, and understanding that most of us bring to the dance, at least some of the time.

When the levels of those qualities drop, then things go awry.

But, unlike power, you can never have too much of them.