The Path of Least Resistance

As temperatures timidly tip-toe upwards, the cold recedes and the ice begins to melt, I’m stuck by the fact that Nature will always follow the path of least resistance.  Water flowing around rocks, trees growing over and around and in between…

Somehow that tenet doesn’t seem to have been adopted by society however, with that draw to resistance eventually developing into fighting for this and fighting against that, war rooms and differences assumed. That all too familiar us versus them that we see attached to even the most noble causes.

But maybe the more we let go, the more things will flow, maybe it’s not us versus them, but just me and you, and you, and you...  All different, yes – but why the need to sand down eachother’s differences to enter into an individualised concept of right and wrong, good or bad?

Perhaps is we can begin to feel comfortable with the differences between each of us, rather than judging one and applauding the other - perhaps if we can resist a little less and flow a little more – perhaps then we could begin to open up the roads to greater understanding.  

And those are the roads that will ultimately lead to a clearing occupied by less opposition and greater harmony, on any scale – lover to lover, neighbor to neighbor, colleague to colleague, country to country, mindset to mindset…  I’d like to see where that path could lead.