The Bird loves the Fish

         Watching a video this weekend I heard the speaker say something that got me to thinking. He said a bird and a fish can fall in love but where would they live? He was mainly concentrating on ones ability or inability to sacrifice but it got me to thinking about the reasons for change. That change is often viewed as an immediate move mentally but more often physically. Yet  I see the word change often being used as a way to escape from ones current situation both mentally and physically. Kind of like that feeling you get when someone ask you a question you don't want to answer or simply can't. There is that immediate need to get up and walk away. Some people may see you as a coward when you seek change because in essence you have found the need to walk away instead of answering the question. But would it be better to answer a question you don't have the answer to? To attempt a riddle that you didn't know you had started? Change exist because it is necessary, one might even say mandated.

           Could the fish fall in love with the bird, sure. Could the bird love the fish just the same, of course. Do they need to be in the same element to love or even like each other....Nope. But could they utilize their current station in life to help the other realize its potential...Certainly. There is a natural fear associated with leaving something even while you still love it. After all it does seem natural to walk away and want a change when things get really difficult. Therein it must be natural to stay when things appear easy. Yet the easiest thing to do may just be the most difficult, like walking away while things seem so easy.

             Would you rather walk away a battered, beaten and Sex Scandaled Bret Farve, trying to answer questions he could no longer answer or would you prefer to be the guy who made his job look easy and left people wanting more like a Barry Sanders. If fear causes change, does happiness cause content? Can it be said that a man is more vulnerable when he is happy because he may not be seeking that change that could alter everything around him. The simplest thought of changing everything around you may seem like it will kill you at first but maybe the you that is alive is not living anyway.

            What if the bird that you are is not a soaring Eagle or gawking Owl? What if you are the wobbling Penguin or the slurping Goose and you needed to love that fish in the water enough to get you out of the clouds and where you needed to be because the element you where in had you lost. But I may have never known that if I wouldn't have tried right.

            That may seem complex, but I am quite sure its Simple Enough.