There’s this analogy. One which speaks of people being trees and you being water and I believe if you truly understand the concept of this analogy, a part of you will be set free.
When you enter a forest, or see a tree you don’t at any point ask yourself why that tree is weirdly shaped. Your mind does not ask why one tree is thin and the next is short and why the other has circles on it. You accept that it is what it is. Even if your curiosity is peaked about the differences in trees you study them as they are, praise them for those very differences, and pay close attention to how they are special. You don’t try to change them. In your mind they are what they are and that is okay. So why not treat people the same way? Let everyone around you collectively be a forest.
Rocks are solid, seemingly unchanging and perceived to be indestructible, just like the challenges we face in life. Here’s the thing, rocks can be eroded with time, they can be formed into something new and exciting. They are the ultimate proof that although things take time to change, with constant persistence, they can be changed into something new. Remember the ‘ugliest’ rocks have the most beautiful centres; the most difficult problems have the brightest rewards.
Water is the most destructive force on the planet, yet it moves around things and carries on even if something gets in its way. Water is also life. Everything needs water in order to survive, water feeds the trees so that they can continue growing and finding their way around other trees. So why can't you be the water? Why don’t you give other people life so that they can carry on growing and if a rock falls in your way? Persist. Carry on going, either through it or around it. Rocks do not determine who you are and neither do trees.
So let people be trees. Let challenges be rocks. And you be water.
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