2/3

Back in my younger, healthier days when I wasn't working 12 hours a day and ending the evening with a glass of wine or a highball I used to do martial arts. One of the teachers I had used to keep reminding us that 2/3's of your body is water. You must act like water and flow with the way the world flows. Life doesn't move in a stright line. You are like water. It is shaped by the container it is in. The world around you, the freinds you keep, the people in your life, they shape who you are. You must be soft when life requires that you be soft, you must be hard when life requires that you be hard.

I've not really thought of myself much as a fluid person. Generally I'm rather change-averse. That hasn't been holding very well lately and I suppose I anticipate change better now, but I still don't have much of a grasp on the idea of fluidity. When the people you keep change, when the world around you is reshaped by the forces you cannot control, these are not fun times, but they can be weathered.

god grant me peace. give me the strengh to change the things I can and bear the things I cannot change.

I'm really bloody tired.