Surfing Though Life

Marvin is a surfer. He loves to go to the beach and ride the waves; the bigger the wave the better. On this particular morning, the waves were just right, running at five to 10 feet per wave. He took his surfboard and paddled out onto the water. When he arrived at the just the right place on the water, the place where the perfect wave just starts to build, and move towards the beach, he started to rapidly paddle his surfboard with his arms propelling himself towards the shore and the perfect ride.

The wave started moving Marvin slowly at the start, but as the wave continued to build, it grew in strength and speed. At just the right spot on the wave Marvin stood up on his surfboard riding to his left then to his right faster and faster as he continued to move toward the beach on that perfect wave to land smoothly on the beach. Marvin was at the peek of his game enjoying every move he made on his surfboard. He was no show-off, just another person en­joying the surf. Time and again he road the waves, only to find that not all of the waves he choose were to his liking. Some waves broke just as he began to stand up on his surfboard plunging him into the water. From time to time when this happened, he would be plunged deep into the wave to be tumbled and battered in every direction, it seemed all at the same time. He would struggle to surface surviving to ride the wave to the shore unharmed.

The wave that Marvin was riding was the wave of his physical life, the wave that effectively described a perfect life as smooth and thrilling as it could be. Some waves allowed Marvin to move in any direction he desired and as fast and easily as he liked without any kind of incidence that would cause him to be thrown off his surfboard of life, plunging him into troubled waters. But not all waves are perfect. Some waves start out to be perfect, but soon break into turbulent waters.

Life can be like a perfect wave for many people while others it seems are tossed to and fro with little regard to their safety and wellbeing. It is always up to us to try and choose the right wave at the beginning of our physical life, but this is not always possible. Some of us invariably choose the wrong wave even though it started out smoothly, building too a perfect wave front, but it was not to be. The wave would start to break before we realized it, throwing us off our surfboard into troubled waters, drawing us down into the boiling and churning water beneath the wave. If we are not able to climb out of the water, by swimming to the surface to emerge and grab onto our surfboard, to climb back on it, or layout on the water to continue to ride the wave, we are often dashed upon the rocky shore battered and broken.

Life can be great when we choose the right wave or it can be a life filled with troubled water. Whatever kind of wave we ride, it is always up to us to make the best of it. We strive to find the wave where we are able to make a contribution to society and our families through showing others how it is done. We striving to be builders of all that life can be through being filled with peace, love, joy and happiness. But, sometimes we do not choose the right wave so that we are unwittingly thrown into the troubled waters of wrong decisions and actions. We believe that we are intelligent, well educated and able to be all that we can be. We strive to find a place where we can contribute to the good of all. To avoid being thrown a curve that throws us off our surfboard plunging us deep into troubled waters. However, troubled waters are designed to teach us lessons even if they are hard lessons for us to learn, lessons nonetheless.

All of us go to the sea to find and ride the perfect wave of life. We strive to choose the right wave so that we will be able to end our life in perfect health, and thrilled to say, “It was a good life filled with love, prosperity and happiness”. Do not despair if your wave is not the perfect one. Your life is as it should be. Moving towards the beach where we can walk away from the sea with all the experiences that that wave had to offer us. You may believe that you choose the wrong wave, but you have only fallen off your surfboard to ride the troubled waters for a time. You can ride on the wave’s surface for a perfect landing on the beach if you will.

Oh No, Not Again

How often have you been asked what you consider to be stupid and often sarcastic questions? When this happens we sometime want to respond with a stupid or sarcastic answer. But is that right or fair? Why should people be making stupid statements in the first place? People far too often do and say things that they regret later. Some of those things do seem to be stupid and even sarcastic, but that may not be the person’s intent. Something we should understand and give the person the benefit of the doubt, if we can.

Haven’t you wished that you could say whatever you want to whomever you want and not worry about the consequences? But, you know that this just can’t happen. Not now, not ever. I think that we all understand this.

We are all intelligent people with our own set of values and thought processes that are different than other peoples. This makes us unique and possible for us to properly express ourselves, ask questions and get answers that make sense.

We must be aware that the way we express ourself can often produce a fight, if we’re not careful, that can become extremely intense and get way out of control real quick. This again, should never happen. It must not happen. How we take the words of others often depends on whether or not we consider the person as a friend or foe. Making a statement as a friend, even if it sounds sarcastic, makes a big difference between what we will tolerate and what we will not. The better we know someone the better we are able to know what it is they are really saying to us and why.

Just knowing that we can only tolerate sarcasm and stupidity for just so long and that we will, far too often, respond in kind is something to think about. Do we want to get involved in that kind of behavior? But, also be aware that it’s not always necessary to get back at someone just because they don’t always expressing themselves intelligence.

Only A Love Call Away

Only a phone call away
But could it be forever?
Where is that man, that woman?

Life is so sweet that we need to talk
To listen to our hearts
To say I love you

But, only for a moment
You see it is only an illusion that we are apart
So call me and will see
Call me my love
Join me in my ever lasting joy
Sing with me and I will sing with you

Let all begin
Let it all be as it should
Love at the start
Love at the end
And no sorrow for the loss

We only know each other
And we only want each other
For love is just a phone call away

Nature and its Cycles

When we think about all the people in this world who are affected by earthquakes, volcanoes, hurricanes, other natural tragedies, we can’t help think about the destruction, and the injured and dead. The question always comes to our minds, why? Why did this have to happen? Why did so much destruction and so many people have to be hurt or perish? Is there a rhyme or reason for it all?

The answer is not why so many people are effected, but why is nature doing what it does? The answer is in the earth itself. Everything on this earth is involved in a cyclic/periodic happening that man has little or no control over. Nature has all the control and yet it has none.

When scientists study nature, through observation, experiment or through the data from earth’s surface and/or glacial core samples cycles show up as bands that represent the years in which something took place is seen. As man studies the core sample data, they are able to extract data of the type of happening that took place, its intensity and duration. An example of a cyclic event in nature may be pollution, droughts, excessive rain, extreme cold, warming of the earth in general, and much, much more.

We today believe that nature is under our control and that the earth has no right to move on its own, and to open up and spill its innards upon us, or even change its climate to suit itself. How dare it…

We must remember that there are more than 6 billion people living on this earth and that the population density is located in areas where there is a high concentration and provability of earthquakes, volcanoes and storms that can and do destroy us and our many creations. Nature can destroy our buildings, our homes, and businesses, parks and other of our beautiful creations.

Man, it seems, has not learned that he is at the mercy of nature and that he has little or no control over what nature does. Man has tried to build in such a way as to prevent earthquakes and storms from destroying his creations, but it seems that all the work and research that is put into his efforts, is just never enough. From each tragedy, we learn more and strive to put our new advanced knowledge into our designs. We always hope we have done the right thing this time, even though it may take years for us to learn the truth of our actions.

It is not your fault or mine that people are involved in “natural disasters.” We may even be involved in one ourself. Will we know what to do and be able to deal with the pain of destruction? Will we be able to help the injured and dying? Will we have the knowledge we need to avoid the areas of the world that nature affects the most or will we just be survivors?

The only thing that we can do is to be aware of the cycles of nature and where it is that nature will wreak its havoc, and to avoid those areas on the earth. Maybe, we will be one of the lucky ones and avoid nature’s destructive cycles.