Life is a continuous flow of waves.
Much like waves crashing on the shore.
As one wave leaps onto the shore and fizzles out. Another is reaching its prime behind it and more are springing up in a queue of endless waves.
We say it is a “new” wave yet it is the same water molecules jiggling about making the contents of the next wave.
So it isn’t new stuff but it’s a new pulse of energy passing through the molecules, although the energy is also made of the same stuff. Which is confusing...
Cycling
Of course, over time the molecules in the sea swap in and out through general mixing and wider currents.
Each human generation is built of the same available molecules and atom pool available in the habitable layer of the planet.
Like waves, generations spring up endlessly made up of the same stuff and sparked by the energy breathed into us until it fizzles out.
Examining our lives we live in a continuous experience of waves.
We breathe in and out in waves and consume food in waves of eating and not eating. We sleep in waves of sleeping and not sleeping (within sleep there are further types of cycles).
We work in waves of working and not working (within your work there are several cycles of types of work).
Over time new hobbies, jobs and people come in and out of our lives. We say they are materially “new” to us.
Yet internally they stimulate the same core desires to be useful, appreciated, and entertained and most importantly people provide a sense of companionship.
That is essentially the story of our life.
Different sources provide these repeated feelings to us in waves. We can zoom in and out of a human life and all we see are waves upon waves upon waves.
Accepting
Like a beach that embraces the endless waves, life goes on. It does not do well to fight the waves or the weather.
Some days are stormy and others are completely quiet. But as the sun sets and rises again, nothing lasts forever.
Some of us seem to live in an emotional hurricane path or have a daily tropical storm. Others have more seasonality and some even inhabit a seemingly moderate climate.
If you accept that your interests are like waves and moods are like the weather we can move with more grace through our interests and events.
Accepting the good and the bad as they are and making the most of what is, instead of regretting what isn’t.
When events don’t pan out there is the graceful zen lesson that “This too shall pass”.
We can also arrive at the irrevocable consolation that
Life is in fact, a beach.
Topical
On return from my afternoon on the beach I discovered my hair was doing this and had probably been doing this for some hours…
