Thursday 3 February 2011

Puddles

What are puddles? Puddles are dirty, puddles make your feet wet, they´re an annoyance, in your way. They´re not good for drinking, I don´t recommend it.
Puddles form when rain falls and mixes with the dirt and soil and earth under our feet; when rain is not properly collected. When rain, refreshing, cooling, life giving rain is not properly cared for, not collected or received, when we are not prepared to harness one of the greatest of natural resources, or when there´s too much -we get puddles.
Is this right - sometimes things are good, they give us life, they refresh, they give strength, but if there is too much, if they are left on the ground, not collected, not channelled, not drunk, they become puddles. They become muddy, opaque, confusing, an annoyance, in your way. Is this right?
How is it that something as life giving and pure as rain can become something as annoying, opaque and dirty as a puddle? How is it that rain needs to be cared for? How is it that something designed to be drunk gets to be not good for drinking?
Puddles are dirty, they make your feet wet -you´re right- kids like playing in puddles- but they´re not good for drinking, I don´t recommend it.





Reflecting on a reflection: What am I talking about? are puddles a problem? they only form on concrete or less porous soil types, they are a necessary state as water slowly finds its way into the natural underground system that keeps us alive. Maybe puddles are not so bad. - After all, they are only  -puddles. Maybe I just wanted to make a point and do it in a way people think sounds wise and in tune with the inner beat of life, if you do it like that they are more likely to take it in, slowly, and not let it form - puddles? A communication cannot happen without a means, and the means will inevitably be a major part of the communication.  Sometimes we use things to make points, things that can be made to seem true but are not true. Is it so easy to get people to accept things if you present them in a certain way? Do we question? or do we just think "hmmm deep", feel a brief sense of peace, and move on to our busy lives. Are we drawn in? -deeper? Maybe I should just get over puddles, learn how to jump at the right time and buy shoes that don´t have holes in. Maybe I should just get a real job. :-) I´m not sure.- What do you think?



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