Which Way is Up?

What is real for you? What’s important? Where are you heading in life?

Pilots say that when you’re flying you can lose your sense of what is up and what is down. In murky water, scuba divers have mistaken the bottom for the surface. Skiers buried in avalanches have thought that they were digging through the snow toward the sky only to strike dirt and rock.

Literally, none of these people know which way is up. They have at l…