The Goldfish Lost At Sea!

"I stand at the edge of the ocean with my feet in the sand, the waves slap against them slowly sucking the ground from out beneath me. I am gradually engulfed by the water until I have become like a goldfish lost at sea. I am small compared to the rest of my surroundings, and there are much bigger fish that I fear will eat me. I swim in search of something familiar, something comforting that will ease this fear and comfort my soul."-slm




Have you ever faced a problem that seems bigger than you, where the other people involved seem like they are outside your league, and you search for someone or something that can comfort your fears? I have, there have been times that the problem seemed much larger than I could handle, and the other persons involved were stronger in character than I thought I ever could be, making me feel like that goldfish lost in a big sea. My problems have always populated my life in the most profound ways, where I have always found my way out of them, yet with lessons learned. Be it strained family bonds, a tragic violence, lost friendships, or work related drama I have always found my way out, yet I always had a knack for learning lessons from them that only made me stronger as a person.

Sure I was hurt and scarred by these situations, but I was never angry about them, only confused and strangely thankful for the lesson I had learned from it. I am not suggesting that problems are a wanted or even a needed thing in each of our lives, only that every imaginable problem that we come across can teach us life lessons that can only make us stronger, and we become that bigger fish in the sea.

There is a root to every problem we encounter, they become embedded in layers upon the character we are, and they inspire us to become a better person in the end. They teach us that we can laugh at the end of the day, and the things we lose in the process were never really meant to be there for a long period of time, and the sea that we are lost in at the moment will seem small eventually, and those big fish, well, they too have their times when they feel like a goldfish lost at sea.