"BABY STEPS" by Becky Hemsley

"BABY STEPS"
by Becky Hemsley

We have to stop thinking that we’ve failed every time we fall.

When babies are learning to walk, we don’t assume they’ve failed every time they hit the ground. We realise that they are simply not done trying yet.

We praise them for getting up and going again.

Because we realise that it is much easier to fall down than it is to pull yourself back up to standing.

Babies don’t stop trying,

no matter how many times they fall.

They don’t give up. They get up.

And they continue to believe they can do it.

Sometimes it takes a long time. Sometimes they need to rest.

But they do get up.

They find their balance.

And eventually they walk.

Then they run. They skip, they gallop and they leap.

Sometimes we fall and sometimes we need to rest.

But we have not failed.

We are finding our balance.

And we are preparing to run.

Even if we need to take baby steps

at first.

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Becky Hemsley 2023

Beautiful artwork by Anna Radis Art

'Baby Steps' is one of the first poems in 'Letters from Life' https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CHL9MZC1...

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