Remember to Touch Base
Before you can touch base, you have to know where base is.
Base is home. Base is where you belong. Base is where you feel
comfortable, secure, loved, restored, and trusted. Base is where
you feel strong and in control. Base is anywhere you can kick
your shoes off, metaphorically and physically, and rest your
head safe in the knowledge you’ll be looked after.
We all lead increasingly busy, frenetic, and frantic lives. We all
get caught up in the busyness of life to such an extent that we
lose sight of where we thought we were going and what we
thought we were going to do and what we were going to
achieve. Base is going back to where you dreamed it all,
planned it all out. Base is where you were before you got lost.
Base camp might well be rediscovering our roots—essential in
an age when we all move around so much. Knowing who your
family is, where you come from, what your real background is.
It’s OK to have ambition and move on from our roots, but it’s
also important to know who we are and where we came from.
Yo u c a n s o m e t i m e s s e n s e i t i n c e l e b r i t i e s w h o h a v e b e c o m e
incredibly famous or rich. Often they try to deny their past
and pretend to be something else; in the process they come
across as shallow and fake.
For you, base might be a place where you grew up, where
you’re reminded of the feelings of growing up—the hopes and
fears, the younger you. Or it might be a person who provides
the base—a best friend from many years ago who can remind
you of how you were before it all got so confusing.