I peed in my pants and got goosebumps (simultaneously) when I read the following quote from a new favorite blog:
These are the options we’re given in life–to drown in our sorrow about what we can’t control, or soar in the possibilities of everything we can.
Has anything truer ever been written? I’d be hard-pressed to find it; this falls into the “secrets to life” category – right alongside anal douching.
Yesterday, I was talking to my boyfriend about his post-university options since he graduates in another year. There are a lot of decisions to be made. I said there are two ways to look at it: You can either be overwhelmed my the choices, paralyzed by indecision and entirely stressed-out, OR you can be excited by the opportunities that are unfolding – and to look at it all as one great adventure.
What to do after university is a huge life-altering decision. But so is what to do after dinner tonight. I mean, you could change the world between now and bedtime. The choice is always yours to drown or soar; It’s tempting to drown, but much more fulfilling to soar.
So the question remains: Are you opting for wings or a snorkel today?
September 7, 2010 at 2:56 pm
However, nothing is black and white…I see a third option: being in the moment of the decision. Neither avoiding it by wallowing in guilt, shame or fear; nor avoiding it by planning for the future of when one takes flight; but truly being one with the moment and the experience and feeling out every possible fiber of its flesh and embracing it in compassion and gratitude.
September 7, 2010 at 3:07 pm
I have the same problem as your boyfriend… I have no idea what to do after University, and I also graduate next year. I want to fulfill my dream of becoming an actor and model in L.A., but I also need a job that will keep me afloat for at least a few more years, and a B.A. in Biology won’t do that because I need to follow that with another degree. I’m both overwhelmed by this and excited of the chance I get to live independently in a big city.
September 7, 2010 at 4:39 pm
Wings for me : )
September 7, 2010 at 4:41 pm
I like that quote: shivers down the spine.
Sometimes the longer one wears the snorkel, the harder it can be to put the wings on. In most situations one doesn’t like there are three options:
1. Accept the situation (keep wearing that snorkel)
2. Change the situation, or:
3. Walk away (both 2 and 3 involve donning those wings)
September 7, 2010 at 4:42 pm
Wings please : )
It is tempting to give into the stress. College is a bitch some days. But good things almost never come easily.
September 7, 2010 at 6:47 pm
Changing the world after supper sounds tempting! I was just gonna watch some TV.
September 7, 2010 at 7:22 pm
There is no feeling better than a wind brushing my flesh (could be a libra thing). I choose to fly, and that sir, is all I ever care to do in life.
September 7, 2010 at 9:41 pm
Flicking that water off my fairy wings!!! Stand back and give me room!!
September 8, 2010 at 4:57 am
I completely agree.
All I want to do is spread my wings and soar towards whatever bright future is down the path for me.
September 8, 2010 at 7:18 am
If we didn’t take the challenge of choosing the snorkel, we’d never see the beauty underneath the surface.
September 8, 2010 at 9:51 am
As a bird of the sea I live to soar but to eat we must sometimes dive below the waves to nourish ourselves and get stronger.
September 8, 2010 at 12:46 pm
Eckhart Tolle is the mature version of Davey Wavey without the bod and hand motions. He is the best in “Be Here Now” teachers to date.
Be well,
September 14, 2010 at 4:28 am
Hey Davey,
In life I soar in fact naturally I do I’m not often faced with a predicament that I cannot find a solution too. … However what about where my heart is… the comment we can drown in the sorrow of what we cannot control…. I understand that but what if that sorrow that was drowning us was say a brother can a man just walk away and soar in the possibilites of what I can control yah I could play the age old aristocracy that I was raised in and do that but this is my blood my family I do not want to drown in that sorrow but is it my right to soar in the possibilites of what I can control when my own blood is drowning in the sorrows of what they cannot control!!!!!!!
Wouldn’t a person then say that it is selfish for me to soar in the possibilites that I can when someone of my blood is in that space however many times or years a man has tried in the past!!!!
Kenneth R. Livingston
Though thanks Davey I agree with you 100%
August 28, 2011 at 5:01 am
Wings for today!