The Still Waters of Waiting Potential

This day – this very moment, in fact – is a deep, still body of water that stretches out before us.  It’s an endless expanse of potential within which a single splash could ripple forever outwards, touching countless lives as it travels.  Yesterday and tomorrow are but reflections resting atop the surface of this water.  When we become lost in these reflections, focused on what was and what may be, we leave today’s potential untouched – we create no ripple and we alter no lives, not even our own.

A day will come when our bones have dried out and our muscles have worn thin.  We’ll lack the strength to swim someday and the waters of our potential will begin to dry out, as all things eventually must.  When that day comes, the only thing we will have left is that reflection, the memory of all the great dips, plunges, and splashes of our past – but if we spend all of our todays gazing at our yesterdays and tomorrows, there will nothing to reflect upon.

We have to swim while the waters remain deep.  We must jump in and splash about while the ripple of our influence remains strong.  The time is now to tell someone how much we love them.  This is the moment to take a chance and pursue our passions; to make space for the things that really matter and to set aside the time to be sure of what they are.  We must stop gazing at the surface, close our eyes, and just jump in before those waters – and the currents they carry – begin to run dry.

 

© 2015 Cristen Rodgers

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