Know Your Limitations

Know your limitations

Too often issued as almost a threat

That stepping out too far will lead to ruin

And perhaps,

If that were to happen,

The person who told you that

As well as everyone who thinks that way

Will just say, “Well it wasn’t like he wasn’t warned”.

I’ve known my limitations

And sometimes that knowledge stopped me in my tracks

Leaving me paralyzed and trapped in my own mind and body

As if chained to something much larger than me

But sometimes looking back then, as in behind me,

And looking back now in retrospect,

I have come to believe that the limitations were exaggerations of risk

That I could rearrange, disassemble, reevaluate and sometimes ignore.

Know your limitations

Make friends with them

Enlist them in your advancement

And if you can, wave them goodbye.