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Finding My Way Back to Joy
Life is like surfing, an energetic exchange between us and the universe. It’s not entirely active — solely determined by us and our individual human will — nor is it an entirely passive experience that the universe manifests for us. It’s a mix of both.
I say this as a person whose surfing experience is limited to the Web. :)
Universal currents offer us waves of opportunity —with both momentum and direction — and we choose our responses to them. We can either work with them or struggle vainly and futilely against them.
Kelly Slater and his high-tech wave pool aside, we humans cannot create waves. Sometimes no matter how much we want to experience forward motion in the manifestation of our destiny, there’s not a wave in sight and no matter how hard we paddle, surfing just isn’t going to happen.
Other times the waves seem to come in never-ending, disorienting sets. We get pulled under, feeling like we’re drowning, or end up ejected onto the beach, choking with sand in our lungs, asking ourselves whether it’s all really worth it.
Our opportunity in life is to become better and better at sensing and reading the universal currents around us, taking action when the right waves come along. And to get back in the water and try again when life’s waves give us a good thrashing.
