We all have heard the phrase "Waves of life." Today I viewed with my eyes personally not through any filters what that means.
I watched surfers today off the coast of Lima,Peru. From the start I noticed many parallels to this sport and life. Instantly I aligned with why this sect of the population is so passionate about this taming of an untameable force.
When they swim out from shore they are forced to drive through, or roll over, or duck and dive incoming waves to get to the breakers that will provide the best ride.Some, like they roll over, do not stop their progress, others force them to duck an dive under water and be driven back for a time, then they paddle on.
All this to reach a destination that they see, gives them the best opportunity to be succesful on a ride back towards shore to turn around and do it again.
Some are succesful when they time their mount and ride for two breakers or so, others get up and fall down after the wave has slowed, while still others get wiped out immediately.
The longer I watched the more I came to the realization that I wasn't just watching surfers, I was watching the navigational course of life. Trial and error, the ability to catch another wave, live to fight another time. The perspective to see that the waves...never stop coming, and they dont ask questions just provide a powerful challenge.
On the waters and through the waves...I saw this...
Choices,decisions,good relationships,poisonous ones,triumphs,great victories and failures.Beauty,ugliness, deception,unexpected findings,courage to move on and forward, or decide to quit. Long rides,short rides,rough waters, and calm seas,ability to choose,and chance to be fooled.security,trust,and chance,trials,possibility to be destroyed quickly,or after time. Accomplishment, and failure, fortitude, and helplessness,courage,and meekness,winners,losers,and quitters.
Yes today I watched surfers, and my life, in the form of waves and the human spirit, fighting and challenging the great waters.
