Remember amebas,
those microscopic one cell creatures
that flow with the stream?
You might think amebas are blobbish-globs,
but they don't mind,
because they know how to flow,
slowly, smoothly, gracefully.
They're experts!
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I've
rarely met a jerky ameba.
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Sometime when you're fighting a battle
that is beyond your control,
you might try flowing too.
Drift with the current like an ameba in a stream.
Let it take you where it pleases
and save your struggling for some other occasion
when it might serve you better.
You might dislike flowing
because you feel out of control.
It can be unpleasant at first till you develop the
knack.
But once you learn to let things happen,
your life can flow more smoothly.
You may practice flowing by accepting the
inevitable.
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How can
you tell if something is inevitable?
Before predicting the
future,
it's best to be able to predict the past.
And if it's already happened,
then it's
definitely
inevitable.
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It's time to stop fighting and start flowing
in order to accept it.
If you don't, you'll be holding on to the Past.
The Past is whatever has already occurred.
If you allow it, the Past leaves you behind.
The Past is within you, until you let it flow.
It has no desire to stay.
You can block it and then blame it
as tho it's your Past's fault.
It isn't!
When you block the Past within you
you separate it from its natural time zone.
All it wants is for you to allow it to flow home.
Poor Past!
Poor Past and Poor You!
You may sometimes have trouble accepting your Past
because you regret how you handled things.
"If only
I hadn't been such a
Jerk..."
But if you were, you were!
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And flowing with your regrets is essential
for learning from your experience
and doing better next time.
Without those regrets,
you will be more prone to repeat your mistakes.
You might have been told to forget the Past,
that there's no point in regretting,
but that's jerky advice.
Regretting is part of forgetting.
Only thru regretting can you give up
those last glimmering wishes of might-have-been
and proceed to accept what actually was.
If you sometimes feel as tho you blew your last
chance,
you didn't!
There's usually a next time,
maybe not identical, but similar.
Opportunity
never stops knocking,
if you learn how to
listen.
But if you act deaf, you'll have dumb
problems.
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You can't be heard without saying,
and Opportunity says "knock, knock, knock..."
Of course, as with everything,
you can overdo flowing,
and become too wishy-washy.
Either extreme causes problems.
So, remember,
the Past offers opportunities
for flowing, accepting and learning.
And the Future offers chances for changing.
Flow
with the
Past
and choose your course
in the Future.
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In summary,
why not flow with the knock, knock, knocking...
instead of knocking yourself out
when you'd be better off flowing?
Costas Hercules, M.D.
updated 9/13/99
