I Go With the Flow
Everything that exists follows the same pattern... This universal pattern, resembling a sound-wave with rhythmic highs and lows, exists in every new person we meet and every familiar place we visit. It is consistently found in the largest, smallest, simplest and most complex things you know. Even though the universal pattern exists in every wave, they each vibrate to their own inimitable frequency. Just like a sound wave sounds different when you alter the frequency... it is still the same wave pattern, just repeating at a faster or slower rate.
This is what is happening to every aspect of life as we know it... Think about every relationship you have ever had; coworkers, friends, siblings, your parents, neighbors, even the gas station attendant and the person who makes your sandwich at the sandwich shop... each one of these relationships follows the same wave pattern, but each are made unique when you consider the variances in the dimensions of its dynamics. (Examples of dimensions, how much time you spend with the person, how long/well you know them, the type of relationship you have with them) These variances, determine the intensity of the wave as well as the frequency, base level, etc. These patterns exist in all and are absent in none…
From the life cycle of a plant, to the orbital flow of a planet. Each of these waves is one thread, which gets weaved in with other threads to make a bigger, stronger piece of thread, which then get woven back in with other threads to make an even bigger piece of thread. It is this infinite loop of weaving that keeps us all connected on some level.
Have you ever tried to stop a wave? It would be silly to even entertain the idea, let alone, attempt to impede an ocean's formidable wave. For the sake of my example, I will scale it down to a more feasible magnitude... By throwing a stone into a pond, you create a wave of a much more manageable size. Still, any attempt to stop, even a small wave, in a tiny pond will prove to be futile. You can try putting an object in the waves path, which may create an interference pattern in the wave, but will not stop it. Send a counter-wave back at it, and the two collide turning the pond into a thrashing, unpredictable battleground, but the wave will not be stilled. A wave is extremely adaptable, resilient and unassailable. It will find its way around any object, reverberate off any obstacle and fight back against any force.
Instead of trying to control something that is incontrollable… ride the wave out to completion. Because the more you try to dominate ANYTHING, the less control you have over it. Our reality does not exist just so that we can manipulate it to fit our desires... it exists as a lesson for all of us to learn as much as we can from it. In my experience, you are able to travel a much further distance by riding a wave, than you do by fighting against it.
This is what is happening to every aspect of life as we know it... Think about every relationship you have ever had; coworkers, friends, siblings, your parents, neighbors, even the gas station attendant and the person who makes your sandwich at the sandwich shop... each one of these relationships follows the same wave pattern, but each are made unique when you consider the variances in the dimensions of its dynamics. (Examples of dimensions, how much time you spend with the person, how long/well you know them, the type of relationship you have with them) These variances, determine the intensity of the wave as well as the frequency, base level, etc. These patterns exist in all and are absent in none…
From the life cycle of a plant, to the orbital flow of a planet. Each of these waves is one thread, which gets weaved in with other threads to make a bigger, stronger piece of thread, which then get woven back in with other threads to make an even bigger piece of thread. It is this infinite loop of weaving that keeps us all connected on some level.
Have you ever tried to stop a wave? It would be silly to even entertain the idea, let alone, attempt to impede an ocean's formidable wave. For the sake of my example, I will scale it down to a more feasible magnitude... By throwing a stone into a pond, you create a wave of a much more manageable size. Still, any attempt to stop, even a small wave, in a tiny pond will prove to be futile. You can try putting an object in the waves path, which may create an interference pattern in the wave, but will not stop it. Send a counter-wave back at it, and the two collide turning the pond into a thrashing, unpredictable battleground, but the wave will not be stilled. A wave is extremely adaptable, resilient and unassailable. It will find its way around any object, reverberate off any obstacle and fight back against any force.
Instead of trying to control something that is incontrollable… ride the wave out to completion. Because the more you try to dominate ANYTHING, the less control you have over it. Our reality does not exist just so that we can manipulate it to fit our desires... it exists as a lesson for all of us to learn as much as we can from it. In my experience, you are able to travel a much further distance by riding a wave, than you do by fighting against it.
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