Sink or Swim –
Yesterday was our third installment of swimming
lessons. So far it had been a wonderful
time to see our oldest son and daughter take on the challenge of being
submerged underwater, then the joy of coming to the surface. It has been a wonderful confidence booster
for them. Ultimately it had been going
way too good. Yesterday we got a good
dose of reality.
Our oldest son took to the class and water with
excitement. His sister put on the brakes. For all the joy her brother was experiencing,
she was experiencing hesitation turned in to reservation, turned in to
apathy.
He was in the water having all the fun that the water
could contain.
She was watching from the side, giving her mom and dad a
different kind of lesson. A lesson
grounded in understanding that we all take steps at different rates, we all
progress in our own way. Causing me to
remember the quote, “You can’t push a river, but you can go with the flow”.
In the end we went with both flows, down their own unique
paths.
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