I love stripes for their simplicity, structure, symmetry and elegance. Imagining a task I need to do I see a line – start, middle, end. Linear. Flat. Achievable.
But who am I kidding? Tasks, or journeys very rarely follow the track of an elegant stripe. They may start out like that, in our head, or crafted from material, look what happens…
Despite best intentions to keep this fence uniform, neat and in order, things changed. Nature is the one that changed things. Nature determines how things are.
The vision of a stripe is beauty because it offers an easy path, of least, or actually no resistance. But in reality, what we experience in life is rather like a curly wurly bar. Still an A to B but with some twists. Sometimes presenting challenges and struggles, and sometimes giving us unexpected lovely moments. The highs and lows, not just a stable flow. As I said, just like the curly wurly bar, sometimes hard, sometimes soft, sometimes melted 😉
We never really know what is around the next corner curve, but we can still achieve something – we might just have to change our goals along the way, or even through them out of the cart altogether. Life is a rollercoaster. We know that.
As I experience more of life, and hear the experiences of others, I see that when things happen (good or bad), we try and overlay a reason onto it, something we might’ve done to cause it, and then a false correlation is born which is believed and shared and sticks. But really, things just happen to people, and it’s often just a coincidence that something else was going on. The only thing I have found that has a reason is nature.
We are not in control. Nature is.
Find it, accept it, understand it, embrace it, respect it.
Love Stripes & Trees xxx
Stripes & Trees 