Thoughts of a Sprite

Wednesday, August 25, 2004

Life is Like~

~ a box of chocolates…. Just kidding! Because my last entry was so long, I will try to keep this on brief! Bear with me, I am about to get deep (for a blonde anyways.)

I have decided that life is like Chittanango Creek. For those of you who don’t know what the hell that means, please see Blog entry, *OUCH* and you will catch my drift! It is an awesome, one of a kind, wild ride that you can never go back through because the current of time is too strong. It is scary, some times painful, adrenaline rushing, and yet peaceful. Sometimes you hit every rock on the way through, and sometimes you just coast right on by. Sometimes the current seems too swift, and you are spinning out of control, and other times, you get stuck behind the log blocking the path and you seem to stand still. The fun part here is do you go over or under that log? Sometimes you fall out of the kayak, and get knocked around a bit on the way down stream trying to catch up to your Kayak, but those wounds heal! And those are the stories that stick with you forever!

The important thing is that no matter how strong the current, no matter how many rocks you have smashed into, no matter how rough the path ahead looks, you never give up! Whether you are carried through by the currents strength or by the strength of your own paddle is the question, but regardless, some how you just keep going… because there is no going back up stream, No turning back.

You may think there are too many rocks, or that the current too strong, but somewhere down stream it has to calm down. And the point to this is that it might be the “out of the Kayak, smashing against rocks” part of life that hurts the worst, but those are the things that make us stronger, that make us wiser, that give us something to share with others, to pass along to our children, and give us strength further upstream when things start to look a little rough again. Those are the times that we remember, because those are the times we feel.

/End philosophical moment: casually return to blonde mode/

I hope I spelled Chittanango right…

shes_a_sprite @ 8:24 PM.

1 comments

Rachel said...

Cheers to that! ;)

1:45 AM