Dory was a very wise fish. She is amongst my internal dialogue often. Just thinking it makes me smile just a little bit. I picture her swimming down into the darkness with faith and no fear of the unknown.
Children have the same blind faith, but adults have seen that there are reasons seemingly to fear the unknown. We all know that it will eventually work out in the end, yet we fear the uncertain and the unknown as if the end of our world may come upon us in that unknown future.
We can not control what happens in the future, we can only control ourselves and how we respond to the situations that we are faced with. I am a firm believer that no matter how bad things are and your desire to quit is strong, if you just keep moving a little bit at a time you will get through it and things will work out.
My life is a living testament to that, but the best example that I have is from when I was in college. A storm came through town and I was supposed to drive to another town an hour away. I called ahead and said the weather was bad, the sky was green and I had actually seen a twister
in a place where twisters didn't happen. The people I was supposed to meet didn't believe me and made me feel like I was exaggerating. I felt compelled to make the drive.
So I started my journey, the roads were flooding and the rain was so strong my wipers couldn't really keep up. I was in 2nd gear and barely moving. I made it to the freeway and I was still in second gear. Now the hail started and it was inches thick on the road in minutes. Cars were
pulling off the road and visibility was almost zero. I was now in first gear going up a steep hill with cars pulling off left and right. Literally as I crested the hill (20 minutes later) and the storm abruptly ceased with the edge of the cloud cover. It was a sunny drive the rest of the way. Two hours after I arrived the storm hit the town I had just driven too and the people couldn't believe I had made it.
To this day I use that memory to remind me that even if I only move my feet an inch at a time, eventually I will get somewhere. Once I get there I can move to the next place. I will sometimes get there faster than other times, but hard or easy I will move through it.
Children have the same blind faith, but adults have seen that there are reasons seemingly to fear the unknown. We all know that it will eventually work out in the end, yet we fear the uncertain and the unknown as if the end of our world may come upon us in that unknown future.
We can not control what happens in the future, we can only control ourselves and how we respond to the situations that we are faced with. I am a firm believer that no matter how bad things are and your desire to quit is strong, if you just keep moving a little bit at a time you will get through it and things will work out.
My life is a living testament to that, but the best example that I have is from when I was in college. A storm came through town and I was supposed to drive to another town an hour away. I called ahead and said the weather was bad, the sky was green and I had actually seen a twister
in a place where twisters didn't happen. The people I was supposed to meet didn't believe me and made me feel like I was exaggerating. I felt compelled to make the drive.
So I started my journey, the roads were flooding and the rain was so strong my wipers couldn't really keep up. I was in 2nd gear and barely moving. I made it to the freeway and I was still in second gear. Now the hail started and it was inches thick on the road in minutes. Cars were
pulling off the road and visibility was almost zero. I was now in first gear going up a steep hill with cars pulling off left and right. Literally as I crested the hill (20 minutes later) and the storm abruptly ceased with the edge of the cloud cover. It was a sunny drive the rest of the way. Two hours after I arrived the storm hit the town I had just driven too and the people couldn't believe I had made it.
To this day I use that memory to remind me that even if I only move my feet an inch at a time, eventually I will get somewhere. Once I get there I can move to the next place. I will sometimes get there faster than other times, but hard or easy I will move through it.
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