How do you step from the top of a 100-foot pole?

With its base in a koan in Zen the question, "how do you step from the top of a 100 foot pole" seems to suggest that our lives are filled with uncertainty where abundant questions and the need for decisions constantly lurk.  In taking a step forward into that abyss of uncertainty, by making a decision and following forth with the accompanying action - there is the enlightenment that follows.  I guess that is what life is about.  Overcoming the fear of uncertainty, making decisions and putting into action what needs to be done.  We have come to understand that for resolution to be sought, decisions are necessary and so are their subsequent actions.  It is in indecision and inaction that we stagnate.  'Sitting on the fence' so to speak and not taking that vital step forward. For in holding yourself back there is inevitably the sense of inertia that takes hold - where growth or development fail to flourish.  We are then in effect just a body of cells on the top of a 100-foot pole, with no rhyme or reason.

Good or bad, decisions need to be made about almost every aspect of our lives. Knowing that every decision and action has consequences propels us to make them and assume responsibility for their outcome.  Even when bad, a positive action can follow to remedy the bad choice.  We become elated when good decisions reap the positive results envisaged.  Decisions, decisions, decisions.  The leap from that 100-foot pole, that's what it's about.  It's what gives us a sense of purpose.