Go with the Flow: Embracing Life's Currents

The advice commonly given to swimmers stuck in a rip tide is to relax go with the current and swim parallel to the shoreline. This is because the current is stronger than the best swimmer fighting it is futile. Instead go with the flow and work with it (by swimming parallel instead of directly against it). In time the current will take you where you want to go. This way, you can truly go with the flow!

Life is much like this too, when you come against an opposing force first size it up. If it is stronger than you are and is taking you in a different direction than you want to go, maybe there is a reason for that. Maybe there isn’t but you will waste all of your energy fighting what you don’t know. You could see along the route a perfectly acceptable safe place to separate yourself, and you would have saved all of the energy fighting in vain to direct in the direction of your enemy. Sometimes, it is better to go with the flow than to fight back.

Just because something opposes you does not make it your enemy. Even an enemy might be helping you though unintentionally. Maybe looking for an enemy in our us versus them society is futile anyway. Go with the flow and you may realize we are all wet bags of carbon just trying to survive on this crazy spaceship called Earth in the best way we know how!

As always, thank you for riding with me! Don’t forget to go with the flow!