Stranded souls
In nautical terms, not excessively technical ones, a ship is beached or stranded when it gets stuck with the bottom or the unwanted shore, because the liquid through which it was flowing has been losing depth and thickness and is -now, with the stranding- non-existent. Therefore, this vessel can no longer flow through the liquid, it cannot sail or move forward. It is stuck.
Something similar happens, sometimes, with our lives.
We get stuck in a work, stopped dead in our social tides or without fluid in our emotional flow...
Perhaps without realizing it, or sometimes without caring too much about the signs of little "fluid" under the ship with which we travel through the current of our lives, we get stranded at some point without having wanted that destination...
Then, we watch with dismay as our fellow travelers in life continue to sail and flow with the current, advancing in their own directions and gradually drifting away from us. Most of the time this causes us frustration, helplessness, angry or resentment, because we are stranded in the flow of our lives.
Moreover, we suddenly see how those old mates of travel journeys, work colleagues, friends, children or even partners; become smaller and smaller on the horizon of our lives..., until some bend in the road makes them disappear, remaining only in our memories of the moments and adventures lived together in times gone by.
On several occasions, many of us do not even try to double our efforts to get out of the stranding and continue flowing through life, through the beautiful experiences with which life surprises us at every turn; and we remain there - stranded – just crying and plaiting to ourselves.
Some manage to break free from their strandings: so, they suddenly realize that life let them continue their journeys renewed, and with other matePodcast (in spanish)s on the road, thrilled by the success of having been able to overcome, and -most important- they feel strengthened by the experience.
Others, those more lucky, one day realize that one of the navigators passing by has stopped, approached them and tried to help to get them out of their stranding. Then, they accept their destiny and let themselves be helped to get out of that dead end in the flow of their lives, or they reject that gold opportunity and remain there, in the suspended time sine die of non-life.
Our ships are made to flow in the current of life, not to be in port and never to be stranded.
We are beings that must flow and navigate through the experiences that the multiple moments and situations of each day give us. We cannot waste this innate aptitude that we have, nor can we renounce it for a simple temporary stranding.
The current of the river of our lives continues to flow constantly, even if we are stranded at some point, and shows us how others continue to pass by us navigating the delights of their lives.
Let's float and sail!
As a corollary of this post, some time ago I've read a powerful phrase by the philosopher Khalil Gibran that I would like to share with you, because it makes us reflect:
"They say that before entering the sea, THE RIVER trembles with fear... it looks back, for the whole day it has traveled, for the peaks and mountains, for the long and winding road it has traversed between jungles and villages, and sees ahead an ocean so vast that to enter it is nothing more than to disappear forever. But there is no other way. The river cannot return. No one can return. To return is impossible in existence. The river must take the risk and enter the ocean. Only when it enters the ocean will fear disappear, because only at that moment will it know that it is not a question of disappearing in it, but of becoming the ocean".