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Not every day is a fun day, an easy day, a perfectly curated Instagram moment day. This was one of those days. I was emotionally absent, hurting and unmotivated. The weather complimented and magnified my mood. It was cold and rainy and as a result, the line was soaking wet which makes it heavy, amazingly unstable, and incredibly difficult to walk. I faked a smile, went out on the line and I tried standing up a few times, but it bucked me off like a bronco. I would normally stick it out and project a line like this, but instead I quickly returned to the anchor, made excuses as to why I wasn’t going to try harder, and started untying my leash... unaccomplished and defeated. Then I felt a defining moment come on. I saw myself from above and watched it all play out - what giving up looked like. Anger set in, and hands stopped untying the knot as my gaze shifted to the line. All I heard next was my own voice saying “You get your ass out on that line.” Without hesitation, I tied back in. My better half knew that I needed this; I needed to feel it. I needed to let this line teach me. I needed to stop trying to protect myself and let myself suffer through this. I spent the better part of the next hour and a half getting completely rocked. Fall after fall, I was forced to face everything I’d been feeling but trying to ignore. Anger. Sadness. Love. Loneliness. Confusion. Hope. Despair. I screamed. I laughed. I cried. Like face buried in my hands cried. But I got back up, time and time again, and finally made it back to the anchor. That’s when @garrison_rowland snapped this photo. When I saw it, emotions flooded in but I was mostly inspired. Something about the way I dropped down onto the line but didn’t fall, grabbing it from above instead of groveling under it made me feel like this was a turning point... like all of those falls were necessary to ascend out of the low point I had sunk into. If you swipe to the next photo over; you’ll see the moment I experienced the next day. The one I earned through the heat of the refiner’s fire. The send with no falls, with the sun at my back and friends at the end of the walk. This... this is the balance of opposites.

A post shared by R Y A N R O B I N S O N (@handsomerobinson) on Dec 10, 2018 at 7:14pm PST