Do Waves Represent the Cycle of Life?
When the wave is up and you’re catching it, it’s not hard to grow or fall…it all makes perfect sense and you want it to last forever.
When the wave is down and you’re not catching it, it’s like your waiting…waiting for something to happen - whether it is good or bad, you just want to feel it.
Sometimes when the wave is up, you may not catch it. Do you keep trying or give up? Do you BEGIN or do you GIVE IN? Sometimes you need the help of someone else to give you the extra push…but, most of the time, we don’t ask. Pride? Persistence? Perseverance? Maybe. I see bums everywhere and wonder if they just never had the courage to really ask for help besides the typical signage.
I know we allow waves to pass us by all the time which is okay if we wait until it is the right time to really ride it to the finish. If we catch it too soon before we are ready, we’ll break down and break the wave. If we catch it too late because we were too scared, we’ll miss it.
So when do we know? When the time, faith, willingness, and ambition is there. When we are ready to take a chance again and deal with the consequences whether it’s riding it out to the finish, or totally biffing up. But, we have to be ready. That is something I’ve learned. We can’t let external sources let us believe we have reached that point. We can’t let external ‘signs’ show us the right direction. We can’t let that reflection of the water be in our way. We have to be ready to tell the story no matter if its good or bad, listen to our own external glitters, and feel it…all the way through. Nonetheless, it is essential to have people there lending a hand, and supporting our decision, but we have to be willing to ask as well.
When do we know when the wave will never emerge? Should we wait endlessly? I have one simple and quick answer – no. If you wait long enough in one situation and nothing changes, it’s time to move on and head another direction wishing to catch another wave. Call for help if you need to be pulled out of the ocean. Maybe a lifeguard won’t hear you, but some supernatural being will and you’ll find another wave…just not in the place you wished.
And let me remind you that there are constructive waves and destructive waves. Constructive waves are low in energy – approaching the beach slowly. And although it is slow, it constantly moves up the beach. Destructive waves are tall with lots of energy – the kind most of us like to ride. But when they approach the beach, they rapidly steepen and plunge down the beach taking away more material from the beach than the wave can give back.
Point is? It’s okay to have a smaller wave that carefully takes you along the ride, not taking too much in the end, but just moving slowly – constructively. It’s okay to ask for help when the courage is not there – I guarantee if you ask, you will receive…but only if you ask with the right motives.
The wave will not come because you want to get a two-second high, because you want to show the world what you’re capable of, or because you have to prove something. The wave will only come when no one is watching and you’re in it completely based on your own heart having faith every ride of the way.
When the wave is down and you’re not catching it, it’s like your waiting…waiting for something to happen - whether it is good or bad, you just want to feel it.
Sometimes when the wave is up, you may not catch it. Do you keep trying or give up? Do you BEGIN or do you GIVE IN? Sometimes you need the help of someone else to give you the extra push…but, most of the time, we don’t ask. Pride? Persistence? Perseverance? Maybe. I see bums everywhere and wonder if they just never had the courage to really ask for help besides the typical signage.
I know we allow waves to pass us by all the time which is okay if we wait until it is the right time to really ride it to the finish. If we catch it too soon before we are ready, we’ll break down and break the wave. If we catch it too late because we were too scared, we’ll miss it.
So when do we know? When the time, faith, willingness, and ambition is there. When we are ready to take a chance again and deal with the consequences whether it’s riding it out to the finish, or totally biffing up. But, we have to be ready. That is something I’ve learned. We can’t let external sources let us believe we have reached that point. We can’t let external ‘signs’ show us the right direction. We can’t let that reflection of the water be in our way. We have to be ready to tell the story no matter if its good or bad, listen to our own external glitters, and feel it…all the way through. Nonetheless, it is essential to have people there lending a hand, and supporting our decision, but we have to be willing to ask as well.
When do we know when the wave will never emerge? Should we wait endlessly? I have one simple and quick answer – no. If you wait long enough in one situation and nothing changes, it’s time to move on and head another direction wishing to catch another wave. Call for help if you need to be pulled out of the ocean. Maybe a lifeguard won’t hear you, but some supernatural being will and you’ll find another wave…just not in the place you wished.
And let me remind you that there are constructive waves and destructive waves. Constructive waves are low in energy – approaching the beach slowly. And although it is slow, it constantly moves up the beach. Destructive waves are tall with lots of energy – the kind most of us like to ride. But when they approach the beach, they rapidly steepen and plunge down the beach taking away more material from the beach than the wave can give back.
Point is? It’s okay to have a smaller wave that carefully takes you along the ride, not taking too much in the end, but just moving slowly – constructively. It’s okay to ask for help when the courage is not there – I guarantee if you ask, you will receive…but only if you ask with the right motives.
The wave will not come because you want to get a two-second high, because you want to show the world what you’re capable of, or because you have to prove something. The wave will only come when no one is watching and you’re in it completely based on your own heart having faith every ride of the way.
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