November 26, 2003
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Topic: HOW DID YOU GET WHERE YOU ARE, AND WHAT’S IS LIKE?
See if you can follow this generic life metaphor . We are in constant movement down a river, going through different stretches at every moment. Everyone is on their own river, there’s virtually an infinite number of paths to take on the river, although some stretches of river may look similar to others.
Most of your young life, you’re just sitting in a raft, floating uncontrollably downstream. Gradually, you gain more equipmant and have more ability to steer your boat as you choose. As you come into adulthood, you are paddling for the most part by yourself, managing your own way through calm and rapid waters.
THERE ARE NO RIGHT OR WRONG/BETTER OR WORSE PATHS.
The lives we live are all subjective with regards to that kind of criteria. However, there are more challenging and easier routes. There are more traveled and less traveled routes. There are more dangerous and safer routes. The list goes on.
What route are you on?
Did the current bring you there, or did you steer yourself where you are?
Is that where you want to be?
Do you have no idea what I’m talking about?
Comments (5)
I think I do (have an idea what you are talking about). And I think most people float along more than they steer.
Ooh, ooh, and to continue the metaphor… at the end of the river of life, there is a waterfall. Right? And no matter how much you fight, you’re eventually going over, right? So it’s up to you to do as much as you can until that moment comes.
Right?
Hey i just saw on your profile that you did outward bound. That kicks ass! Aren’t they based out of Asheville, NC? Do you know Sheryl Wooley?
BTW commenting on your post The river flows to the sea and that’s exactly where i want to be. Flow, river flow. Take me off this land, take me from this road, to some other town- Lyrics from final scene of Easy Rider
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I love the way you have a topic for each entry, and you ask people to think…. I’m steering my raft stronger than ever right now. But that’s only because the river took me someplace I never expected, and knocked my raft right over. Sometimes a bit of cold water is required to get you steering.
I think that we all give the current some if not all of the credit for where we are, but I wonder. . . Who creates the current? I think we do, maybe the current could symbolise all the decisions we have made with greater consequences than we considered. Maybe I’m wrong, but that’s what I think.