I feel like somewhere on the internet I encountered the phrase “if you’re between a rock and a hard place, be water.”
Google tells me otherwise, so I don’t have a source.
Initially, I picked this song because I felt like it was uplifting. The melodies and sounds make you wanna move, and dance. I haven’t felt like doing that much today.
The more I times I listened to Ripple, though, the more I started to feel like it related to that quote. It would be easy to let ourselves give in to dread. Spin out, like the song says. I think the water and the concept of ebb and flow can be applied to time periods in our life. Yin and Yang. Hard times make us value the good, the valuable.
I think it’s important to recognize these feelings of dread we might feel. Genuine fear. Anger. Many of us are grieving.
Coincidentally, I wrote a blog post the last time Trump got elected, eight years ago.
https://wordpress.com/post/everything-etc.com/833
I titled it Don’t Choose Fear. I quoted a Will Smith movie. The idea though, was akin to “be the light”. It may feel like it’s pitch dark all around us. Here’s the other thing; 67.7M people and counting agree with us. Have the same worries we do. We are not alone in this.
“We’re all going to have to wake up tomorrow morning and work like hell to move the world toward what we prefer it to be.”
Let’s choose that. No fear. Never fear.
BE GOOD, DO GOOD!
everything, etc. 