Swimming can be harder than it seems

Swimming can be harder than it seems

When one stops to ponder, to think, to actually consider all the comments and opinions they have listened to it makes the head hurt. The positive is that there are a variety of opinions out there or actually more accurately the variety of ways the same opinion is stated as there are actually not that many true opinions. But hearing ideas in varying ways can produce a better understanding of the idea as it is believed by many different people.

The downside is that so few people are actually thinking. There are many voices but few thoughts. Now to quickly set aside any belief that I am above the crowd, it will take you but a moment to locate a post or two that clearly proves that I too have simply recast the others’ ideas with only changing a word here and there.

Taking time to think, to ponder truly might make our heads swim but they say that swimming is the best exercise. So may I encourage you to take up the practice of swimming. Train, your muscles in the art. Exercise is essential to healthy living. And as you know mental health is vital.

Each day we are dumped into the pool of opinions and ideas. Each time we reach for the shore it can seem to be just out of reach and our patience reaches a breaking point. We become frustrated with people and with what seems to be vastly stupid renditions of an original bad idea. But was the idea horrible or has the endless repetition simply added cement shoes to our feet? While different ways of saying the same thing are intended to add clarity there are very clear times when it simply adds weight.

Not everybody we disagree with is a dolt. Not every idea we find silly or unreasonable is wrong. As amazing as each one of us is, we too are not quite perfect. There are times, unique as they might be, that we are wrong as well. The only honest response is to agree with Dory and, “just keep swimming”.

Blessings!