Sue’s Photo Prompt this week for #writephoto…
“You can’t walk on water!” they all said to me…I’m getting sick of it. Whatever I want to do, they tell me I can’t do it.
What rubbish! Hadn’t they seen the stream this morning? Oh it was cold alright. So cold that the water had stopped flowing, frozen solid.
There, see.
That’s one way I can prove them wrong!
I just need to test it out, so when I get them here to be witness to my miracle, I don’t look a complete fool, slipping and sliding around the ice.
One foot on… steady! The other leaving Terra Firma and placed cautiously on the ice.
There! Done it! I am standing on water! And if I just take a few steps, I am actually walking on water, frozen or not!
It’s not easy, you know, but at least these spiked shoes have some grip on the slippery ice!
Actually this is quite easy! I bet I could even run on water too!
CRACK!
What was that?
As I look around, I see a crack appearing in the ice behind me, zig zagging along towards me, following the small holes my spikes had created.
SPLASH!
Thank goodness they weren’t here for that! Lucky the stream wasn’t so deep, and it it was just my ego bruised, and my clothes wet…
Maybe I’ll just listen to them next time…
Sue Vincent
Dec 07, 2016 @ 21:28:28
The fine line between confidence and caution… maybe the real miracle is knowing where the knife edge is 🙂
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Ritu
Dec 07, 2016 @ 22:07:34
A skill we sometimes come across a little later in life… 😊
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Judy E Martin
Dec 04, 2016 @ 18:17:40
Ha! Great tale Sis. If it were me, I’d have skidded and broke my leg! 🙂
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Ritu
Dec 04, 2016 @ 18:48:37
Oh me too sis! I am clumsy too remember!!!
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Judy E Martin
Dec 04, 2016 @ 19:58:43
I do remember you have a few battle scars! 🙂
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Ritu
Dec 04, 2016 @ 21:15:44
😁😁😁
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syl65
Dec 04, 2016 @ 00:16:07
A lesson learned but we have to be adventurous too!!
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Ritu
Dec 04, 2016 @ 00:32:55
True Brother! We need to find our own feet too 😊
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syl65
Dec 04, 2016 @ 00:38:12
With or without spiked shoes Sister 😄
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Ritu
Dec 04, 2016 @ 07:37:45
Indeed Brother lol!
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syl65
Dec 04, 2016 @ 19:45:10
LOL !!
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Erika Kind
Dec 03, 2016 @ 21:32:56
Yep, sometimes it is better to listen… but the art is to find out when it is necessary 😁
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Ritu
Dec 03, 2016 @ 21:41:36
It’s a hard lesson to learn sis!!
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Erika Kind
Dec 04, 2016 @ 11:08:12
It is…. and you feel like figuring out for the first time…. each time!
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Ritu
Dec 04, 2016 @ 11:09:55
😁😁😁
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willowdot21
Dec 03, 2016 @ 20:53:11
Fabulous Ritu
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Ritu
Dec 03, 2016 @ 20:53:54
Thanks Willow!!!
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willowdot21
Dec 03, 2016 @ 21:30:08
Pleasure
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dornahainds
Dec 03, 2016 @ 16:50:46
A fabulous cautionary tale. 🌹
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Ritu
Dec 03, 2016 @ 17:00:29
Thank you Dorna!!!
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