..riding the current

Everything from a distance seems unreal. Like it’s so far away and by consequence so unlikely to happen, that you will never need to worry about that affecting you. Life’s journey will always bring you close to things that were so distant earlier on that you never thought about them ever coming this close. Now, you’re wondering what you could have done had you thought of making preparations for these things. It is of course, too late to plan.

No preparation in life will ever make you fully equipped to handle everything. This is why we see a lot of things happen around us, and know someone who has gone through something similar and yet never thought that it could happen to ourselves one day.

What is there to do now? What takes you through it? Life isn’t going to wait for you to answer all questions. Just like these things were distant earlier on, they will be distant again with as life goes on. The journey takes you to it, and then takes you through it. Like gliding on a river with the current. Only one direction to go. Immersing yourself in every sight on the way. Experience every rapid that current hits. Headed towards the end from where you can’t return from to warn the traveler behind you of everything you experienced. Unless they were close enough to see you and maneuver around the difficulties you experienced.

Who would such a person be ? Why do they get it easier than you did? It only looks easier from a distance. It looks easy only because you are far from experiencing what they are experiencing. If you get close, you will know. It wasn’t easy for them either. They may have appeared to outsmart the river from a distance, but on close inspection, they are as lost you were.