Surf
You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf
- John Kabat-Zinn
When someone is surfing, they have no
control over the waves—the waves are going to come and
go regardless of what the surfer may want. The good surfer,
though, is the one who learns to interact with
whatever waves may come, big or small, and use them to create the
outcome he’s looking for.
In life, there are many things we have absolutely no
control over—just like the surfer doesn’t control the waves. But we do
have control over how we interact with whatever comes our way. So
instead of looking to magically change the circumstances, we can focus
on how we can grow in the midst of the circumstances that we do
encounter. Because ultimately we can’t control everything, but we can
control our response—will we let the waves of life knock us over, or
will we learn to roll with them, moving forward as we go?