The margin can sometimes feel like the safest place to exist. Being on the edge of somewhere but looking towards somewhere else. Looking to the other side. That ‘somewhere else’ or ‘other place’ can be obscure, or just out of sight. Moving an inch closer towards it can give comfort that it is a better place, a place where you can feel safe and secure. What makes that other place so appealing is that we cannot perceive it properly; there is room for our imagination to make it whatever shade of greener green we wish. The trick is to not reach that other place. It may be disappointing; it may be worse than our starting point. Sitting on the margin just looking over at it, being aware of it is enough. Living in hope that there is another place that is better gives us reason to strive. Living in that hope is a positive place to be, being on that margin is a magical place. Sit in that marginal place and look across to something that you hope is better.
