"The Higher You Rise, The Harder You Fall"

There is a saying, “The higher you rise, the harder you fall.” When you have achieved a state of grace through loving and caring attention on the part of God and rigorous effort on your part, a single unrighteous thought or act can send you crashing down. At which point you have to pick yourself up and do the hard work of rising again.

There is a saying that power corrupts. When possessing of power, there are many challenges and temptations. These can result in even the more well-intentioned people acting badly. To deal with such things it is necessary to have a platinum temperament as well as an unshakeable sense of right and wrong. Not everyone who behaves badly while in power starts out being a bad person. They do not know what they are dealing with, and often they do wrong things. We see this with people like Clinton and Nixon, both of whom had some good qualities but whose character was imperfect, resulting in major errors while in power.

Sometimes people are born with bad inclinations, and sometimes they simply don’t know what they are doing. In many cases people are not prepared for what comes their way. There are many people in the inner city who do not have correct guidance from their parents, and when they hit their teens they do not know how to deal with what they are faced with. So even many of the people with better inclinations become gangsters, drug dealers or sex industry workers. That is because, once again, they do not know what they are faced with and do not know how to deal with it rightfully. The claim that many have about these people is that they are bad people, and some think that they are bad because they are black. They are not. Once again, they are simply not well enough prepared for what they will face.

I have known a number of people with talent, intellect and even fantastic personal qualities slip into bad situations. Once again, the reason is that they do not have the correct guidance for what they will have to face. Sometimes people are naive and fall for the line of one or another kind of deceiver. Sometimes they have desires or ambitions that they do not know how to handle rightfully. Sometimes they disagree with their upbringing and go to other situations, for which once again they are not properly prepared. Not all of these people are bad human beings, and having known a number of them I do not see them as being worse than the average person. They simply do not know what they will face.

If you have had education in upper classes, there is a lot further to fall than if you have not. Such people will find the fall a lot more hard to handle than would people who come from lower places. They will have a lot further to fall, and they will fall harder. And they will make much juicier prey for people who live in the bottom and feed on what goes there.

The higher you rise the harder you fall works in many different situations. Sometimes you fall from a high place that you – by yourself or with higher guidance - have raised yourself up to, and sometimes you fall from a place where you were born. In all cases the fall is hard, and the process of rising again is a difficult one.

Certainly someone who has fallen from a high place is likely to be bloodied in the process, and that may make such a person more obviously beaten up than someone who has fallen from a lower place. Such a person would both make better prey and be more vulnerable to attack. Whoever is feeding on such a person would be very attached to her, seeing in her many fine qualities, and would also feel himself justified in being highly abusive and moralizing to go with his predatory behaviour. And should the prey leave or attempt to leave, there is no hearing the end of it.

Why do such people become attractive to predators? One of course is status. He is feeding on someone who has come from – or been in – a high place. Another is refinement and education, both of which are attractive qualities. And then of course there is the beauty and the intelligence. All of these are attractive; and when they go along with the status of someone as a rebel or a “slut” or anything of the sort, they allow the person the opportunity to feed on the person’s fine qualities while regarding her as a bad human being. This then empowers the predator to get whatever he wants from the person -which is in most cases far more than he could conceivably get anywhere else - while treating her like dirt.

And once again, if the person attempts to leave there is no hearing the end of it.

Anyway, back to the original subject. The higher you rise, indeed the harder you fall. So it becomes a matter of handling a great balancing act on the beams of a skyscraper and hoping not to fall on the street below. And in some situations a single wrong move means instant death.