A Wet Death Threat
Re-Recollection
You know how some childhood memories fade into a pleasant blur, while others linger like a technicolor warning? This is one of those:
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Re-Recollection: A brief, occasionally edited recounting of an event or situation.
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Perhaps the best thing you did that day, and maybe something we should all consider, is when the water feels too deep, or there is something frightening, or threatening that we experience, and we don’t feel safe, STOP SWIMMING, and get the hell out of the water!
Instead, dressed in my little pink tutu through life, I was “That Guy”, who kept swimming, often in life successfully reaching the “desired/required destination” I had set out to reach – the place I was told by others, or a misinformed inner voice, that I was supposed to reach. Often it was the wrong destination, for all the wrong reasons. Not there! Not for me!
These many decades later I’m still learning when it makes sense to just Stop. Sit still. Be quiet. Breathe and don’t move. Get out of the pool.
When we sense a threat, or even a subtle rumbling sense of dissatisfaction in our belly, a lack of clarity, or fulfillment, a lack of purpose…Or when we’re feeling completely out of whack because we are not living in alignment with the things that matter most to us, and when we sense that this may not be the right place, or the right time for us. …Or we’re in this for all the wrong reasons, pay attention! Stop swimming. Instead win another far more important race, which is living within integrity, and honesty, remaining open to the unfolding of the life that is yours to live, instead of trying to win one of these stupid prizes that other people say we should be living.