The Bee

I watched a bee drowning and death was imminent. As I watched it I wondered if its path was to end in a pool of water. It began to stop and die, I reached down and scooped it out. Life.

   The simplicity of life is pure. Interesting how life gives lessons when your not looking, yet they catch us by surprise every time. Taking the time to slow down and see them seems to far off to reach...yet again and again they still catch our attention. In this fast passed world that we live in seems to pull us in every and any direction. Spinning and twisting it takes us along with its current, pulling us deep within its rage and letting us up when it pleases. We choke on the water and spit up what we cant handle...then it happens again. How to handle it is the question on everyone's mind, how to swim, how not to drown...how to hold our own in a world that does everything to take the simple power of choice away from us. That's my question. As the river rages and goes in the direction that was planned before we ever got there-we struggle, we pull, we fight...and try to drown. But have we ever taken the time to just go with it? Has the thought to just enjoy the ride, ever crossed our minds? We try so hard to fight, we try so hard to just keep our head above water that we miss the ride that was freely given. We struggle. Ive seen the current thrash a simple life into nothing. Iv seen it pull life into the depths of darkness and hold it there until the life ended. I struggle, I fight, I pull to try to win. I'm thrashed, I'm beaten, Iv choked on its water and I almost lost life. On my back I float, breathing in air as the current takes me where I have no choice but to go. I try not to pull, I try not to fight...In the end its rage is king. In the end its say is the say of choice. We can fight, we can be pulled down...but it takes its toll. When we loose all the strength in the world and we relax to just go with the flow...we accomplish more. Looking into the sky we can ponder where it will go, we can look and look for the answers that we wish to find. Yet in the end, it has the answer. Sometimes we go to fast and fall from the highest of falls only to be plummeted beneath hundreds upon thousands of little drops of water...but it adds up...and it overcomes. Go with the flow...feel its direction- and let it lead you. You have no choice, your just one drifter in the river of many. Life is simple, yet its complexity is mind numbing. We get caught up and forget to be thankful for the one thing we have had since the beginning...Life...and all the joy of just living. Funny how it works, how it leads...how we all yearn to be different, yet in the end...we are all in the same river...the river of life.    

-McRae