Waves

Hey Reader,

How's it going? I am once again procrastinating slightly, but I swear I will be productive tonight, then I get to hang out with little kids tomorrow morning.  I'm excited.  So, it is 6:02 and I'm kinda just waiting for people before dinner and then there's an event going on tonight.  It's work time after that, I swear.

Life is filled with all sorts of little epic coincidences.  Lately I've noticed that life seems to be composed of two separate waves, like sound waves kinda--there's the internal wave which consists of things like emotions, thoughts, personal goals etc.  It's pretty much everything internalized, and given the name, is subject to very frequent ups and downs, even within the span of a day.  Then there's the second wave consisting of everything external like events, weather, luck, etc.  It's everything external to ourselves and can get a little out of hand sometimes, though we can control it in little ways, such as putting ourselves in specific situations or controlling how we react.  As with the internal wave, this wave also has ups and downs.  Duh, it's a wave.

Now, what I find interesting is how the waves interact with each other.  I mean think of it.  If an external wave crest matches up with an internal wave trough, they cancel out, and vice versa.  This can be way cool if you're having a bad day and then something amazing happens--like seeing an incredible performance.  *cough* *cough* Preston Pugmire. (Look him up, he's great to watch.)  I mean, even if you're having a bad day and something good coincides, yet the waves don't exactly match up, the roughness is eased and life just becomes better.

Sure, these waves can cancel each other out and essentially, mellow you out, but they can also build each other up or rip each other down further.  Take the sun for example, say you are feeling great and then you walk outside and it's a beautiful day--you see an incredible sun reflecting off all the surfaces and BAM, your good mood is now amplified by the great weather.  Unfortunately this can also work in reverse.  Say you're feeling rotten and then you find out you bombed a test or something like that.  The bad mood is now amplified as well.

For the sake of optimism, let's focus on when internal positivity and general happiness coincides with external positivity and possibly good luck.  We cannot isolate the two waves to examine them separately, but I highly doubt our lives would be as intense--yes it can sometimes be intensely painful, but it can also be intensely wonderful, and those times when the wave crests coincide is when epicness occurs.

So, live for the epic times when the crests coincide, they'll get you through the times when the troughs do.  However, also be aware that the frequency is by no means static.  Don't think that life has a set pattern for you, chances are it doesn't.  Just enjoy the spontaneity of it all.

Be well, be excellent, be bloody brilliant!

-Megan