California has finally been receiving glorious amounts of rain and I'm loving it. Rainy days are my favorites. They're never too cold, and that fresh smell of the air when the rain finally stops is very nice. It is a good time to think and enjoy the momentary freshness of the world from the usual drudgery as life moves forward.
Reflecting the idea of rain fall to life, I've come up with this parallel. Say there is a hypothetical situation where one person is walking leisurely through the rain while the other is running. Also in this situation, the goal is to move forward.
When one walks through the rain slowly and with an umbrella, the walk is pleasant and calming. The slowness of the pace allows one to enjoy the smells, the sights, and their surroundings without getting very wet at all. Contrarily, when one runs through the rain as fast as one possibly can, he will most likely get very wet. The speed required for racing through the rain will probably cause one to loose one's umbrella, slip/fall a couple of times, and get very wet from exposing himself to larger amounts of rain contact.
Similarly to the course of life, if one was to take life slowly and "walk leisurely through the rain", he'd probably be able to greater enjoy the details of life. He would harbor a smaller scope of ambition and most likely, the life he'd lead would be relatively normal, and stable.
If one was to pursue and feed his innate sense of ambition, figuratively "running through the rain as fast as they can", his course of life would obviously be of a different nature. The fine details of life would be missed and the easy days traded in for days of reckless ambition of achieving. Yes, one would also suffer much more falls from his slippery footholds on the rain slicked cement and a greater battering of the rain on his shoulders.
I personally have not found which course of life it is that I am leading. I find a certain appeal in either of these extremed options; However, if I were to decide a way that I am running towards, in my own course of life, I would say my attraction would be greater to the "running through the rain" path. Of course, that would be because of my attraction to the idea of finding that one moment of pure self contentedness in having finally achieving my designated moment of greatness.
As a high schooler that is is rapidly approaching the most defining year of my high school career: Junior Year, I feel that I have to decide how it is that I want to run my life: To take it slow or to run and to push. I simply want to be able to self decide whether if this seemingly harbored ambition that I carry academically is really reflected in me or is really a self-created ruse I made to fool myself into joining the expanded picture of entering the best college possible that seems to be lived my most of my peers. I don't want my high school ambition to have been faked and never realize it. I desire to harbor a real sense of ambition, that my efforts are being honed to a goal that I do have the genuine faith in. If not, I'd rather discover the true life path I seek is to simply "walk in the rain". At least then I wouldn't waste efforts and live detailed oriented and happy.
Of course the two options I'm choosing from are extremes. If I was to truly find an ideal walk/run through the rain, it would be along the lines of the famed quote "don't forget to stop and smell the flowers". The "flowers" could be either of the two extremes that I have put as a minority. As long as either extreme is sharpened to point at a specific and acknowledged end, I believe both are good choices/ paths to go down.
I doubt this speel made a lot of sense; It is a rant after all. Hopefully it stimulated at least a little brain work. Anyways, Californians of the Bay Area, enjoy the rainy weather while it lasts. We're going to be headed to sunshine days again real soon.
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