Life On Ice

Beware of thin ice as you skate through life. Technique! Even trickery will not glide you safe. Learning by error can cause drowning in the final trial. Failure in this grim syllabus is terminal. Switch direction with some illusion of control. Stopping? Merely slowing is difficult! Focus on detail and neglect the grand context. The essentials blur smoothly into trivia. Reject advice from the nagging voice that speaks of cowardice, of avarice. And as you travel, a transitory slice is cut on the treacherous ice.