Friday Image With Words: "You Are Not Alone" - Simple Photography Tips by Michael Blyth

A fixed wire on a difficult mountain path is a quiet reminder that others have gone before, recognised the challenge, and left something to help. You May Be Walking The Path Yourself, But That Does Not Mean You Are Alone.

Everyone who travels the road of life requires assistance from time to time

Some images seem to carry a quiet thought. This one does for me. Thus the words "you are not alone"

A fixed wire on a mountain path is there for a reason.

Someone, somewhere, recognised that this was not the easiest place to pass.

Others had gone before. Others had felt the awkwardness, the exposure, the need for something to hold.

The same path is not always walked for the same purpose. One person may be seeking adventure, another recovery, another simply the courage to keep moving.

But the wire says something quietly important.

Others have passed the same way, perhaps different conditions, but the same route.

This place has been noticed.

This difficulty has been acknowledged.

A handhold has been left.

There are times when life feels like a narrow path over hard ground. But even then, there may be signs that others have passed this way before you.

You may still have to take the next step yourself.

But that does not mean you are alone.

For me the picture is also that of countless who passed this way, and is in a sense a held out hand, there to help you through this troublesome spot.

In the same way, in other parts of life there are friends or complete strangers who lean towards you and offer a hand.

And wouldn't you do the same if roles were reversed.

For me, a Friday image with words is a small pause at the end of the week, a moment to look, reflect, and perhaps bless others a little more deliberately.

I hope you find hope where it currently seems missing, where your mind is breathless with hurt, anger, fear.

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And the science: "An awkward mountain path can give us vertigo because the body recognises exposure". It would seem there is evidence that "ordinary life has its own exposed places too: decisions, grief, responsibility, uncertainty, loneliness, failure, or change. We may not be standing on a cliff, but something in us can still feel the drop." Known as Persistent Postural-Perceptual Dizziness

https://www.nhslanarkshire.scot.nhs.uk/services/physiotherapy/vestibular-physiotherapy/persistent-postural-perceptual-dizziness-pppd-or-3pd/