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How to Be Like Water and Adapt to Life’s Twists and Turns
How being flexible will get you further than being tough
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This has been my life. Twenty-five years of watching the universe bend and twist around me, of discovering that resilience matters more than strength, that flexibility trumps rigidity, that water cuts through stone not by force but by persistence.
Bruce Lee said it first, or at least most famously.
“Be water, my friend.”
The fluidity of water is a metaphor for how we might live.
How many of us actually manage it?
There have been moments. The time I lost my job and found myself sleeping on a friend’s couch, wondering if I’d made a catastrophic error in my life choices. The relationship that collapsed under its own weight after two years of thinking it might last forever. The rejection emails that piled up until one day, unexpectedly, someone said yes.
Water finds a way through. Not by planning or by force, but by adaptation. By surrender that isn’t really surrender at all.
