Thursday, July 14, 2011

swim, swim, swim

Just keep swimming. Just keep swimming. Just keep swimming, swimming swimming.
Dory from Finding Nemo


The flow of the current pushes against
your weak and tired fins,
you feel your body weaken
and
suddenly
the thought
enters your mind,
"This is too hard"
"I don't have it in me."
"I can't make it."
"I quit."

Flowing water,
tension against your body,
muscles feel like lead,
the choice
Give up,
turn on your back,
return where you came from
or
"suck it up"
"find that "something" deep inside"
There is an inner strength that you don't even know you have...
pull from it,
enter into it
and
keep going.

I don't know what your choice will be
but for this Thursday Morning...
I'm gonna keep on swimming....
just get behind me,
I'll break the push of the current!!!
Come On!!!

Swim...
Swim..
Swim.

Hugs

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3 Comments:

At July 14, 2011 at 8:37 AM , Blogger Sara said...

Thanks to Finding Nemo and Dory I have made it through a lot of stressful situations. This is my counting to 10 whenever I am stressed to the max and feeling overwhelmed you will find that I am repeating this over and over in my head. So I am with you on this Thursday morning. Just keep swimming.

 
At July 14, 2011 at 6:10 PM , Anonymous Anonymous said...

That is a favorite motto of mine. Dory knew what she was talking about.

 
At July 16, 2011 at 7:53 AM , Anonymous Anne said...

I love Dory. She's my favorite cartoon character.I sing that song to myself as I plod through some days. When the phone rings and I'm trying to meditate, her other joke runs automatically through my mind; the one where she says to the shark, "Excuse me, could you come back later? We're trying to escape."

 

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