The Wave: prompt
Going With The Flow
Don’t fight the undertow
For me, there hasn’t been a single instance I can point to that defines this prompt. In truth, there was a slow realization that fighting currents, rapids, and the undertow of Life wasn’t working.
I live near the beach. I’d like to live nearer to said beach — but for now — this works. And one of the first rules of swimming in the ocean is to never, ever attempt to swim against an undertow. You have to change direction, allow the current to take you a bit, to be able to land safely back on terra firma.
Each time in My Life I felt myself struggling — it was because I was swimming against the current. There have been many times I was even tossed into whirlpools just so The Universe could impress upon me that I was swimming in the wrong direction. She would eventually kick me out where I needed to be — but I had to let go of the struggling to get there.
Read that last part again:
I had to let go of the struggling to get there.
And as we all know — we are loathe to let go. We cling to jobs, relationships, and circumstances that will drown us. We believe we are the only ones who can save ourselves. We insist that there is only one way, one direction to head in to get us back to safety.
