Vincent s scribblings

Life s flow 

Life can be compared to a river. Rivers often get their water from many tributaries, or smaller streams, that join together but the tributary that started the farthest distance from the river's end would be considered the source, or headwaters. Our own life experience starts the same way our source is the beginning of our education, the tributaries are all the things that contribute to our life learning experience, they can be good or bad but in the end those make the flow of our stream grow and slowly become a river. Everyone knows that the shortest way to go is the strait line, the water of our river is seeking the easiest path. On its way, our "life-river" find obstacles and while confronting them, winds it ways around until it is strong enough to get through, eating bit by bit though the land, or take its final shape avoiding the obstacle, but the water from the source is not the same water as it is now , with each tributaries adding its own additive and with each obstacle, the river's water will carry off minerals, earth, maybe floating pieces of wood and other element collected in the struggle that with change its color, its density, its shape, its speed, overall, its identity and character. Following its path, the river will change in many ways, but it will always remain one and the same body of water. Struggles are parts of a rivers life so it is part of ours, and sometime our river might face greater threats, It may one day even be stopped, this would could brutally occur by a landslide that would create a dam and then our river would stop flowing, the water would accumulate all it past and present but the pressure will build up and the dam at some stage will break, leaving great roaring water charged with all sort of material pushing and destroying everything in its way, until it comes back to its normal flow! After that, the river might never be the same again, the power of its roaring water might open a new route to a new future but again never mind its past the body of water will still remain the same, only its geographical shape would have changed. And during that time it would still have gotten bigger, due to maybe rains, again more tributaries to become a big huge, large river. The landslide will not easily be forgotten but as rivers do, it moves on, it cannot hold grudge against the slide nor keep on feeling hurt by its own great rushing water after the break! It is important then to realize where it came from, what it was and how it became the slow and maybe monotone flow of this landmark, one forget about its past! or even forget about what it is now! But its slowness is not without strength. It is in fact unstoppable and it is heading straight for its future, an Estuary pouring into the sea still an always one and the same body of water, one river made of its whole life story, but it is not the small stream it used to be nor it is only a river, as it has become the Sea!

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