Fluidity

There have been many moments in my life where I found a situation which was seemingly insurmountable.  Well, I had typically taken that as a challenge... "HA! And you thought that it was not possible"...  Quite the warrior tactic...

Well, I am coming to understand this it is not a matter of fighting every battle, it is a matter of choosing your opponents, or simply realizing that not all that present themselves as opponents need to even matter enough to be considered as such...  we manifest our own forms of reality!

My Father had a saying when I was a child [or actually it was the illustrator of the 'fish' image on his office wall], "You can have anything you want, just be willing to change what you want."

I am now starting to understand that this is not a defeatist principle, but rather to look at the path to your goal, and know that there are multiphasic strings that can give route...

Instead of battling every battle, gaze upon the obstacle, weight it, see into it's heart, and know if it is worth the effort, is there beauty and knowledge to be gained, or is there another path which has less resistance and more virtue?

A drop of water falls heavily from the skies and begins it's flow downhill in forming the oceans.
On it's journey it bumps against a stone, feeling that it needs to drive through it, bore a slow and tedious hole like a cancer into its belly to reach the ocean on the other side... but as the sun casts a ray where once was shadow, the little drop of water notices a happy fish gliding around the past the stone, and the drop of water follows.
Now the little water drop flows downstream to the river, and the river to the ocean dancing with the new-found aqueous playmate.  The carefree drop of water giggles to the fish about the rock, and how amusing of a texture it had been along the journey.  Upon reaching the oceans, the little drop of water ventures up to form a lithe cloud in the clear blue skies and perhaps cycle back again to play with new fish in new streams someday.

With a newly soft-focused vision, not only will life become easier, but one will potentially meet other travelers whom share their values, and will not put up so many barriers, hurtles and strife to future dreams.

-Fredrick H. Zal, while dining with Chala, Nov. 2005