Fighting the Wind
There is an ancient proverb which
reveals this: “One who fights without a purpose is fighting the wind.”
I once used
this proverb as a title for a movie script. The movie was never made because the
folks I wrote it for had a meeting in the Trade Center Tower that fateful
September 11th day.
I did not attend. I didn’t feel like going
because I had been to New York two weeks in a row when my dear friend Gillian got
sick and then passed away.
Life can
sometimes feel like the wind; blowing us hither and yon. Sometimes, we want to
take up a sword to fight it, but then we see there is no reason or purpose;
that we are fighting the wind.
Sometimes the
wind blows in our favor; or so it seems, because at those times we fail to
remember the destruction the wind did to us the last go-around.
We cannot fight the wind. All we can
hope to do is to be wise, prepared, and proactive.
Life is like
the wind; it blows in our favor and can tear our lives asunder. We cannot fight
it, but we can be wise, proactive and prepared.
You are not your house;
you are spirit dwelling in a body. You can be wise. Care for and keep your body
well, because like it or not, the wind is blowing.
Be you, be well, be
wise.
Bertice Berry, PhD.
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