[Photo credit: Borg Collective HR Department]
“Resistance is futile.”
-The Borg, Star Trek: The Next Generation-
I have to be honest. I didn’t think I would be using a motivational quote from a band of brain sharing misfits who duct tape a few brain stem catheters and used car parts to their body and then demand we call them The Borg.
But those collective walking junk piles were onto something. Resistance is really such a complete waste of time and energy on our part.
I mean, doesn’t it seem like we spend our whole lives resisting stuff? Does it not seem we are always locked in a daily battle with someone or something? Think about a typical day.
We fight traffic, time, our emotions, our colleagues, the truth, ourselves, our loved ones, our confidence, our exercise regime, our eating habits, our kids, to be noticed, crime, to get more done, to be more organized, to be thinner, to be stronger, to be liked, to be tougher, for independence, for equality, for respect, for balance, for peace of mind, to keep our jobs, to be relevant, our moods, to survive…
I don’t know about you, but I find resistance exhausting and limiting in my own personal journey to become that which I most desire.
But I do have a suggestion. Imitate nature.
Watch a tree when Mother Nature is pissed and storms into town. It calmly sways and bends until Ms. Cranky Pants has had her say and then it gracefully returns upright, strong and proud like nothing every happened.
Or a river that encounters obstacles (you may know them by their Latin derivative: rocks) in its path. It makes no fuss. It has no tantrum (if you are a dude then you had a mantrum). It simply glides over, around or under and peacefully continues on its way.
Or the seasons. Summer doesn’t gripe about change. It quietly exits unnoticed like a bored party goer at a mind numbingly dull get-together. And just like the realization that summer is no longer here, you suddenly find yourself saying, “Hey, where the hell is the host of this stupid party anyway. Did he leave?”
Try this. The next time you see an ant or some other little creepy crawler who is migrating back to its lair, create a little road block to impede its progress. Don’t get carried away with this however. Things such as sandbags or fences are expensive and time consuming to construct. Keep it simple by using a stick or a rock.
Watch what they do. They don’t fight it. They don’t lean up against it and try to move it. They don’t stand and stare blankly at it for hours waiting for it to move itself. They don’t cuss it out and then storm off in a huff.
No, they simply find the shortest and easiest way to get around it and then continue on their merry way as if it never existed in the first place.
We can learn a lot about how to conduct ourselves by simply observing nature’s grace and dignity in the face of resistance.
My suggestion: Quit resisting life and try going with the flow. You will be far happier and achieve much more if you do.
“We spend our whole lives resisting who we really want to be, so we can be someone we think we should be.”
-Me-
Now that my friends, is an idea worth quitting.
Dean
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