It is often in the most mundane moments that I am caught by sense of perspective altering awareness. Awareness of the ache in my toes from straining to see through the window of what might one day be. Awareness of the truly humbling way that life can take everything away, leave you sweating against the rock floor, only to show you the beauty in having enough strength to pull yourself back into the light. Awareness of the gratitude that pulses in my veins for the people I have landed amongst. It is here, in these moments, with pressure reminiscent of hope, disbelief, and wary elation expanding against my rib cage, declarations of affection catching in my throat, that the floors drop. Endless free fall is the only capacity within which I understand what it means to adore another. With feet firmly on the ground, I'm guaranteed to lose my way.