All the Way Up: The Problem With Saying Yes From the Ground
I need to talk about the time I agreed to have dinner in the sky in Dubai. And I do mean in the sky. I allowed myself to be strapped into a chair, lifted by a crane, spinning above the city while someone served us a three-course meal like this was a perfectly normal thing humans should be doing. But one of my friends said it would be fun, and apparently I believed her. It was beautiful. It was memorable. It was also one of those moments where the version of me who said yes from the ground and the version of me suspended in the air needed to have a serious conversation. As usual, that memory took me to a song and this time it was Fat Joe and Remy Ma’s “ All the Way Up ”. All the Way Up is all about elevation, confidence, and momentum. It's about going higher and refusing to come back down even in the face of obstacles. But as I thought about that experience in Dubai, I kept thinking about the thing we don't always acknowledge. We love the idea of being elevated, but we do not al...
