“If you spend your whole life
waiting for the storm,
you’ll never enjoy
the sunshine.”
-Morris West
Today I watched Finding Nemo,
one of my absolute favorite Disney
movies.
When Dory and Marlin
are searching for his lost son Nemo
and it seems like they’re doomed to fail,
Marlin says, “I promised I’d never let anything happen to him.”
Dory responds, “Hmm. That’s a funny thing to promise. You can’t never let
anything happen to him. Then nothing would ever happen to him.
Not much fun for little Harpo.”
As someone who has often worried about people I love, I find this
incredibly insightful. The truth is we never can know for certain
when a storm is coming. We can’t fully protect ourselves or the people
we love from hardship.
What we can do is choose not to cause ourselves pain by shutting down,
fearing everything that might go wrong. When we hide from the worst
that could possibly happen, we also close ourselves off from the best.
Today if you’re feeling fearful about things that might go wrong tomorrow,
come back to the present and recognize things that are going right today.
There’s a lot of sunshine to enjoy in life, but we can only appreciate it
if we’re willing to be firmly rooted in the here and now.
Apr 17, 2011 11:48 pm | Lori Deschene
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