Hold On To Water

People talk a lot of game about values and how one should hold on to them. But when everything and everyone around you is changing, it gets tougher to stay within some values you keep.

It's values people keep that turned tiny movements into big moments in history. Right now, we're in the middle of, well, everything. A war and a pandemic, interesting times.

It's entirely possible that this dynamite duo of life-altering events is a result of some people holding on (too much) to their values.

During these times, I hold on, not only to my values but to these words from another dynamite duo.

Men are born soft and supple; dead they are stiff and hard. Plants are born tender and pliant; dead, they are brittle and dry. Thus whoever is stiff and inflexible is a disciple of death. Whoever is soft and yielding is a disciple of life.

That's Lao Tzu.

Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way around or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves. Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless, like water.

That's Bruce Lee.

Big, life-altering moments in history can teach us about how we can change or let go of some of our values. As time moves forward, and it never goes another way, it will try to change us. Let's be soft, yielding, adjusting, formless, shapeless.

Stay hydrated, my friend.