synonyms for familiar

Mar 11, 2008 - 13:01 PM PST

As easy as it is to swallow, step back before the habitual takes hold.

Don't climb back into the lion's den, it will bring too great of risk for the simple reward of doing it over again until it kills you.

So close to the edge you stood, kicking pebbles off into the unforseable, hoping to hear an echo back, but never getting any clues.

No sign of what to do, with the endless fields, biting cold winds, with no one around to stand beside. But who knows what might be back there.

Once before you had been in, but time had changed many things, both down there and in you, changing your reactions and perceptions of events.

Looking back into the commonplace, there are fractals of change hidden in a blade of grass or speck of dust.

This may not be the last chance to take a plunge.