"Change is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast. In the pool where you least expect it will be a fish.”
A few summers ago I helped out a friend, spending most mornings in her little country shop down near The Point. I didn’t have a job and was distraught over not having the income I was used to seeing in my bank account. It helped to keep my mind off such things that in the long run, I have realized are not that important.
It was during that time when things were slow, that I had I the opportunity to peruse the small library she had created. Shelves filled with cookbooks, books on weaving and decorating, it was a hodgepodge of simple ways to make a room cozy and welcoming. How to make a house a home.
One of the books I came upon was a small book of quotes, and I read the one above with great interest. So many things jumped out at me, it was as if I was meant to read that book at that moment.
Change is always powerful. Boy do I ever know that to be true! Even when you don’t want change and try to withstand it with all your might, it just has a way of steamrolling right over your intentions. Whether it be your health, your lifestyle, your job or your situation in general; if things are meant to change, they will.
Let your hook always be cast. That statement says to me that even though some change is inevitable, there are things you can do about the change after the fact. If you don’t like what has changed and want it to reflect something different, keep your pole in the water with your hook ready to snag whatever it is you want in your life. You are the one holding the pole – no one can hold it for you, and no one can dictate what you use for bait.
In the pool where you least expect it will be a fish. It comes down to choices.
What is it you want in a “fish?” What is the final outcome you expect from all the mornings of casting your pole and baiting the waters? What is it that you want from the pool of life that is yours for the taking? Can you stay in the boat whilst the water is tossing you back and forth, the waves trying to wash you overboard, whether it be a small dingy or a spacious yacht? The waves make no exceptions to what they consider a challenge.
I am constantly tooling and retooling the situations and choices in my life to reflect the best of what I know I can be. Sadly, at times it turns out that I have made the wrong decision, and am forced to go back out on the Lake and cast again.
But sometimes, just sometimes, I get it right. I will continue to sit in the boat, not safely on the shore, and cast right along with the rest of those who are excited by life and the changes each and every day brings to us.
I hope that you do the same.
