Remember the old cartoon about a coyote who was chasing a bird? There, the coyote carries on the top of the ribbon, runs to the abyss and continues to run for a while, and then suddenly looks down and discovers that it runs in the air?
Well well?
“You know,” he says, “I’ve always wondered what would happen, don’t look him down. Would the air remain the same hard until it reaches the opposite end? I think I would stay, and I still think the same thing happens to all of us. We strive forward, through the breach, without turning our eyes away from the things that matter, but then something – some fears, some uncertainty – forces us to look down. And then we realize that we are running in the air, we are panicked, and we turn and break our heads back. And if they didn’t look down, they would just run over to the other side. Where there is what matters.

Jonathan Tropper, “The Book of Joe”